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History of the Indian Tribes of Hudson's River — Passage 206

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[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] Long Island, as already stated, was called Sewanbackey. Among the localities, Occopoque (Riverhead), takes its name from accup, a creek. The Indian village of Accopogue was situ ated on the creek which enters Little Peconic bay on the north side. Nepeage was the name of the peninsula which unites Montauk to the western part of East Hampton, and is supposed to mean " water land," from nepe, water, and eage, earth or land. (O'Callagban.) Montauk, the name for the east end of the island, is from mintuck, a tree, in the Narragansett dialect. The place abounded with trees, according to Thompson. (Ibid.} Namke, from namaas, fish and ke, place was the name of the creek near Riverhead. {Ibid.} Mereyckawick (Brooklyn), is from me, the article in the Algonquin; reckwa, sand, and ick, locality, "the sandy place." The name was probably applied, at first, to the bottom land or beach. Wallabout bay was called " the boght of Mareckawick." (Ibid} Huppogues, in Smithtown, is an abbreviation of sumhuppaog, the Narragansett word for beavers. (Rhode Island Historical Collections, I, 95.) Bolton, in his History of Westchester County, has preserved many of the Indian names in that district. To the Spuyten Duyvel creek he assigns the term, Papirinimen. O'Callaghan gives the same name to a tract " on the north end of the island of Manhattans," about 228th street, between Spuyten Duyvel creek on the west and Harlem river on the east. Saw mill