[Robert S. Grumet (2014)] a cluster of municipalities at the southeastern corner of the Town of Oyster Bay. Massapequa has been on maps since Mechoswodt, the sachem of Marossepinck, signed the January 15, 1639, treaty deed that granted the Dutch West India Company the sole right to purchase Indian land in western Long Island (Gehring 1980:9). Massapequa, whose remote backwater location close by the Indian community at Fort 17 Neck (see above), did not initially attract colonists. These factors did not, however, stop colonist from purchasing the Massapeaque Meadows as pastureland from Mechoswodt’s successor, Tackapausha, on March 17, 1658 (Cox 1916-1940 1:347-349). Montaukett sachem Wyandanch from eastern Long Island claimed an interest in this land sale, one of several he involved himself in between 1657 and 1658 along the present-day Nassau-Suffolk county line. Despite Wyandanch’s death a year later, claims made by his descendants (and those made by eastern Long Island colonists claiming the dead sachem’s lands) continued to roil local waters for many years (Strong 1997:221-230). Colonists finally started pressing into the area during the early 1690s. Negotiating several deeds, they managed to acquire the last Indian lands at Fort Neck in 1697. Although Indian people continued to live at the locale at one time or another during succeeding years, they located most of their remaining settlement centers in places in and around two small reservations at the head of Hempstead Harbor on the north side of Long Island set up for their use by provincial authorities ten years earlier in 1687. Massapequa remained a small farming village until the Long Island Railroad opened its South Oyster Bay Station in the hamlet in 1891. Developers soon began selling house lots, many of which were purchased by well-to-do second-generation Irish immigrants. Massapequa grew rapidly during the following century. One particularly fast-growing subdivision, called Massapequa Park, incorporated itself as a separate village in 1902. Other children of immigrants and their descendants still move to the increasingly densely populated cluster of communities in and around presentday Massapequa. Today, Massapequa Lake serves local communities as a major recreational focal point. The story of the lake began when the City of Brooklyn enlarged the old mill dam on Massapequa Creek to create the Massapequa Reservoir in 1890. A conduit connected the reservoir to the Brooklyn Waterworks pumping station four miles farther west in Freeport. From there, water was pumped through a larger water tunnel past the Aqueduct Racetrack (hence the name) to the Ridgewood Reservoir atop the terminal moraine on the Brooklyn-Queens border. Little used after Brooklyn gained access to the Croton System following its incorporation into the City of New York in 1898, the Massapequa Reservoir continued to serve as a backup supply source until the 1970s. Today, the 423acre Massapequa Preserve takes in the old reservoir and a four-milelong stretch of the Massapequa Creek shoreline. MATINECOCK (Nassau County). Today, Matinecock Point and the village of the same name are located at the north end of the Town of Oyster Bay. The name first appeared in April, 1644, when the sachem of a place identified as Matinnekonck sued Dutch authorities for peace on behalf of his community and those of nearby Marospinc (Massapequa) and Siketauhacky (Setauket) after colonial troops destroyed Matsepe (see Maspeth and Massapequa above) and another of their towns (O’Callaghan and Fernow 18531887 14:56). Both Indians and colonists subsequently referred to the broad expanse of Long Island Sound coastline on the island’s north shore between Hempstead Bay and Cold Spring Harbor as Matinecock Neck. Matinecock has since been attached to nearly every conceivable place in the area capable of bearing a name at one time or another. At present, Matinecock most conspicuously 18 appears on maps as the name of the small village that was incorporated in 1928 just south of Locust Valley where the Society of Friends built their Matinecock Meeting House two centuries earlier. The name also adorns Matinecock Point, a neck of land that juts out into Long Island Sound a few miles north of the village. MATTEAWAN (Dutchess County). Another widely traveled place name that began following the rails during the mid-1800s, Matteawan in its earliest known location in New York currently serves as the name of a road, a state hospital, and a neighborhood in the City of Beacon. The name initially appeared in the August 8, 1683, Indian deed to land between present-day Fishkill and Wappinger creeks (see below) as a boundary point on “the south side of a creek called the Fresh Kill, and by the Indians Matteawan” (Hasbrouck 1909:35-37). Local residents had been casually applying the name to both the Fishkill Creek they sometimes called the Fresh Kill and the nearby Hudson Highland ridge they called Fishkill Mountain (today’s Beacon Mountains) when the directors of the newly formed Matteawan Manufacturing Company acquired land at Clay Mills at