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John Eliot's First Indian Teacher and Interpreter Cockenoe-de-Long Island and The Story of His Career from the Early Records

Note 74 — COCKENOE-DE-LONG ISLAND.

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These boundaries are as follows: "bounded by us, the aforesaid parties [i. e., the Indians] Wuchebehsuck, a place by the Fort pond, being a valley southward from the fort hills pond, Shahchippitchuge being on the north side, the said land, midway between the great pond and fort, so on a straight line to Chabiakinnauhsuk from thence to a swamp where the haystacks stood called Mahchongitchuge, and so through the swampe to the great pond, then straight from the haystacks to the great pond, so along by the said pond to a place called Manunkquiaug, on furthest side the woods, growing on the end of the great pond eastward, and so along to the sea side southward, to a place called Coppauhshapaugausuk, so straight from thence to the south sea," etc. See Indian Names in the Town of East Hampton, Tooker, East Hampton Records, vol. iv. p. i-x.

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