Amagansett, the Indian name of what is now East Hampton, was translated by Dr. Trumbull, "At or near the fishing place"; root _Am,_ "to take by the mouth"; _Amau,_ "he fishes"; Abn., _Amaⁿgaⁿ,_ "_ou péche lá,_" "he fishes there," (Rasles); _s,_ diminutive or derogatory; _ett,_ "Near or about," that is, the tract was near a small or inferior fishing-place, which is precisely what the composition describes. Peconic, now so written and applied to Peconic Bay and Peconic River, but primarily to a place "at the head of the river," or as otherwise described, "Land from ye head of ye bay or Peaconnack, was Shinnec'ock Indians' Land" (Col. Hist. N. Y., xiv, 600), is not the equivalent of _Peqan'nuc,_ "a name common to all cleared land," as translated by Dr. Trumbull, but the name given as that of a small creek tributary to Peconic River, in which connection it is of record _Pehick-konuk,_ which, writes Mr. Gerard, "plainly stands for _K'pe-hickonuk,_ or more properly _Kĕpehikanik,_ 'At the barrier,' or weir. _Kĕpehikan_ from _Kepehike,_ 'he closes up,' or obstructs, _i. e._ 'dams.'" The bounds of the Shinnec'ock Indians extended east to this stream; or, as the record reads, "To a river where they did use to catch the fish commonly called alewives, the name of which creek was Pehickkonuk, or Peconic." (Town Records.) Agwam, Agawam, is quoted by French as the name of Southampton, L. I. Dr. Trumbull wrote: "Acawan, Agawan or Auquan, a name given to several localities in New England Where there are low meadows--a low meadow or marsh." Presumably from _Agwu,_ "Underneath, below." Another authority writes: "_Agawam_ from _Magawamuk,_ A great fishing place." (See Machawameck.) Sunquams is given by French as the Indian name of Mellville in Southampton, L. I., with the interpretation, "Sweet Hollow." The interpretation is mere guess-work. Massaback, a hill so called in Huntington, Suffolk County--in English "Half hill," and in survey (1703) "Half-hollow hill"--probably does not belong to the hill which the English described as "half-hollow," but to a stream in proximity to it--_Massabeset,_ "At a (relatively) great brook." (Trumbull.) Mattituck, the name of a village in Southold, near the west end of the town, was primarily written as that of a tract of land including the present town of Riverhead, from which it was extended to a large pond between Peconic Bay and the Sound. Presumably the same name is met in Mattatuck, Ct., written Matetacoke, 1637, Matitacoocke, 1673, which was translated by Dr. Trumbull from Eliot's _Mat-uh'tugh-auke,_ "A place without wood," or badly wooded. (See Titicus.)