Thomas Topping of Southampton and William Wells of Southold, two of the Deputies, who were in Huntington at this time by order of the Assembly,[68] "touchinge three necks of meadowe, whch Huntington had formerly purchased of _Muntaukatt_ Sarchem, and he informs true properiety as also in responsion to Oyster Bay inhabitants, who lay a claime to part of the said three Necks, saying thare are fouer necks & one thereof belongs to them, the said _Chickinoe_ now did playnly and cleerly demonstrate before them that the Tree he first marked by his Master _Muntakett_ Sachems order, and hath a second tyme denied according to order, is noe other but that whch ought justly to be owned by him and soe marked as aforesaid, and comprehends only Huntingtons just Purchase of three Necks of Medow and in truth is three necks of medowe & not four according to the present relation of _Chickinoe_." The Huntington men, it seems, were rather greedy, and _Cockenoe_, true to their interest, and having been "gratified," was trying to give them all they claimed. The _Massapeag_ Sachem _Tackapousha_, who has put on record "that it grived his hart" to make this sale, was a thorn in the flesh of the settlers of these two towns as long as he lived. It was utterly impossible to satisfy his demands. The records show that both the English and Dutch were obliged to buy him off time and time again.[69] He is one of the most selfish and turbulent characters we find in the whole aboriginal history of Long Island. Had he and his tribe been more powerful than they were, they would have left a bloody page on the annals of Long Island; as it was, it was his weakness alone that prevented it. On November 3, 1669, at East Hampton, before the Rev. Thomas James and others,[70] "_Checkannoo_," with other chief men of the Montauk tribe, made an acknowledgment in "utterly disclayming any such vassalage as _Ninecraft_ did declare to the Governor at Rhoad Island & doe protest against it in our owne names & in the name of ye rest of ye Indians at Montaukett & doe further declare that he shall have no more wampom of us without approbation of ye Governour of this place & that we acknowledge ye Governour at New Yorke as our chiefest Sachem." The same year, with his associates, _Cockenoe_[71] gave a certificate that many years before they heard the old Sachem Wyandanch declare, in a meeting of the Indians, that he gave to Lion Gardiner and Thomas James all the whales which should come ashore, at any time, on Montauk.[72] On December 1, 1670,[73] together with _Poniuts_, alias _Mousup_, grandson of _Wyandanch_, and other chief men of the tribe, "_Chekonnow_" joined in the Indian deed for the land between the ponds, to John Mulford, Thomas James, and Jeremiah Conkling. This conveyance took in all the land to the southward of Fort Hill between the "Ditch plain" and the "Great plain," and is remarkable for its Indian names of boundary places.[74]