John Eliot's First Indian Teacher and Interpreter Cockenoe-de-Long Island and The Story of His Career from the Early RecordsTooker, William Wallace
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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
Tooker, William Wallace
Cockenoe-de-Long Island, active 1649-1687; Eliot, John, 1604-1690; Indians of North America -- New York (State) -- Long Island
[46] These two chief men of the Montauk tribe were frequently sent
together by _Wyandanch_, and were possibly the Delegates sent to
_Pesacus_ at Rhode Island as stated in Note 33. _Sakkataka_ or
_Sasachatoko_ was at one time chief counselor of the Sachem of the
tribe. He was still living in 1702-03, as the Montauk conveyance of
that date bears witness.
[47] See Brooklyn Eagle Almanac, 1895, p. 55.
[48] Brookhaven Records, vol. i. p. 16.
[49] "The Name of the Neck aboves'd; is _Cataconocke_, March 8 1666"
(Brookhaven Records, vol. i. p. 16). The Indian name, of which "great
neck" is probably a popular translation, signifies "a great field,"
_Kehte-Konuk_.
[50] Huntington Records, vol. i. p. 20.
[51] Book of Deeds, vol. ii. p. 118, office of the Secretary of State,
Albany, N. Y.; George R. Howell in Southside Signal, Babylon, June 30,
1883.
[52] East Hampton Records, vol. i. 172.
[53] "The Signification of the name Montauk," Brooklyn Eagle Almanac,
1896, pp. 54, 55.
[54] East Hampton Records, vol. i. p. 175; Southold Records, vol. i.
p. 363.
[55] Southampton Records, vol. ii. pp. 14, 20, 209.
[56] Southampton Records, vol. ii. pp. 15, 16.
[57] See Mamaroneck, by Edward Floyd DeLancey, Esq.; chap. 23, pp.
850, 851.
[58] See Note 18.
[59] Southampton Records, vol. ii. pp. 14, 15, _et seq._
[60] East Hampton Records, vol. i. pp. 159, 160, _et seq._
[61] From the original in possession of the owner of Montauk, Frank
Sherman Benson, Esq.
[62] _Quaunontowounk_ = _QuaneuntOOunk_ (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.
[63] This passage reads: "The cruel opposition and violence of our
deadly enemy Ninecraft Sachem of Narragansett, whose cruelty hath
proceeded so far as to take away the lives of many of our dear friends
and relations, so that we were forced to flee from the said Montauk
for shelter to our beloved friends and neighbors of East Hampton, whom
we found to be friendly in our distress, and whom we must ever own and
acknowledge as instruments under God, for the preservation of our
lives and the lives of our wives and children to this day."
[64] East Hampton Records, vol. i. p. 199.
[65] Huntington Records, vol. i. p. 58.
[66] Huntington Records, vol. i. p. 58.
[67] _Ibid._, p. 90.
[68] Huntington Records, vol. i. pp. 91, 92.
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