Note 62 — COCKENOE-DE-LONG ISLAND.

Quaunontowounk = Quaneunt∞unk (Eliot), "where the fence is," and refers to the "sufficient fence upon the north side of the pond." Compare "the Indian fence at Quahquetong," Trumbull's Names in Connecticut, p. 58; Konkhonganik "at the boundary place," Kuhkunhunkganash, "bounds" (Eliot), Acts xvii. 26. The agreement, Book of Deeds, vol. ii. p. 123, office of Secretary of State, Albany, N. Y., dated October 4, 1665, says: "That the bounds of East Hampton to the East shall be ffort Pond, the North ffence from the pond to the sea shall be kept by the Towne. The South ffence to the sea by the Indyans." Askikotantup, daughter of the Sachem Wyandanch, was Sachem Squaw of Montauk at the date of this agreement.