Note 12 — COCKENOE-DE-LONG ISLAND.

This is the only instance in the early records of Long Island where we find the old Sachem of Shelter Island called Poggatacut. I believe it to have been rather the name of a place where he lived, either at Cockles Harbor, or on Menantic Creek, Shelter Island. Poggat-ac-ut = Pohqut-ack-ut, "at the divided or double place." Cockles Harbor is protected on the north by two Islands, which during low tides are one Island. It was probably the sheltered condition of this harbor which gave the island its Indian name as well as its English. It was at this locality that Govert Loockmans purchased two geese from the chief Rochbou [Yoco] in 1647.—Colonial History of New York, vol. xiv. p. 94.