On April 19, 1659,[43] eleven years after the purchase, at an annual town meeting of the inhabitants of East Hampton, held probably in the first church that stood at the south end of the street,[44] "_It was agreed that Checanoe shall have 10s for his assistance in the purchase of the plantacon._" Seemingly a dilatory and inadequate reward for such a service. Money, however, was very scarce and worth something in those days, and we cannot gauge it by the light of the present period. In comparison we can only refer to the fact that Thomas Talmadge at the same period was only paid 20s, or double the amount, for a year's salary as Town Clerk. The record, however, is a valuable one, and is one of the straws indicating the esteem and favor in which _Cockenoe_ was regarded by the townspeople of East Hampton. That _Cockenoe_ took an active part in marking the bounds of the tract of land between Huntington and Setauket, now comprised in the town of Smithtown, presented to Lion Gardiner by _Wyandanch_ on July 14, 1659,[45] as a token of love and esteem in ransoming his captive daughter and friends from the Narragansetts, is worthy of note, for it is evident that the Sachem had no one else so capable. In confirmation of this surmise and my belief that he had a prominent part in all the land transactions of Wyandanch, my friend William S. Pelletreau, who is preparing the early records of the town of Smithtown for publication, has lately found recorded, in a dispute over the lands of Smithtown, a deposition taken down by John Mulford of East Hampton, dated October 18, 1667, which reads: "_Pauquatoun_, formerly Chiefe Councellor to the Old Sachem _Wyandance_ testifieth that the Old Sachem _Wyandance_ appointed _Sakkatakka_ and _Chekanno_[46] to mark out the said _Rattaconeck_ [_Cattaconeck_] lands, and after that ye sd _Pauquatoun_ saw the trees marked all along the bounds and the Sachem being with him, he heard him [the Sachem] say it was marked right. And there is a Fresh pond called _Ashamaumuk_[47] which is the parting of the bounds of the foregoing lands from where the trees were marked to ye pathway." This "Fresh pond" was at the northwest bounds of the town of Smithtown. At the same time and year, probably, as it bears no date, he witnessed the sale of "Old Field" by _Wyandance_ to the inhabitants of Setauket in the town of Brookhaven.[48] Also about the same time the sale of "Great Neck or _Cattaconocke_"[49] bounding Smithtown on the east as referred to by _Pauquatoun_. On February 10, 1660,[50] he marked out, and also witnessed the confirmation of the sale of Lloyd's Neck, in the town of Huntington, by _Wyancombone_, the son and heir of the late Sachem _Wyandanch_, who had passed away, and whose son was then acknowledged by both the Indians and whites as the chief Sachem of Long Island. His name on this copy of a copy is misspelled as _Chacanico_.