In this year according to tradition, or what is more in accordance with facts, in the spring of 1653,[29] _Yoco Unkenchie_ or _Poggatacut_, as he is variously named, passed away. The tribe, now without a head, and weak in tribal organization, migrated from Shelter Island. Some went to Montauk and to Shinnecock, while a few united with the Cutchogues. During the following three or four years much alarm was created from the rumor that the Dutch were endeavoring to incite the Indians against the English.[30] The conduct of the Montauks and Shinnecocks was such that they were particularly distrusted, and they were forbidden without special leave to come into the settlements.[31] It was forbidden to furnish them with powder, shot, or rum; hence we find but little recorded. Again, the war carried on between the Montauks and Narragansetts began in this year, and continued for some years with great loss on both sides. It is very doubtful if _Cockenoe_ took any active part in this war, or at least in its earliest stages; for, according to the fragmentary depositions by the Rev. Thomas James and others,[32] in the celebrated _Occabog_ meadows suit of 1667,--a quarrel over a tract of salt meadow located almost within sight of the village of Riverhead, between the neighboring towns of Southampton and Southold,--_Cockenoe_ was then residing at Shinnecock with his first wife, the sister of the four Sachems of Eastern Long Island, who united in the East Hampton conveyance. She was at this date, in consequence of the death of her brother _Nowedonah_, the _Sunck Squaw_, that is, the woman Sachem, of the Shinnecock tribe--a fact which proves that by marriage he came into the house of the Sachems, and was entitled to be designated as a Sagamore, as we find him sometimes called. In the latter part of August, 1656,[33] _Wyandanch_, the Sachem of Montauk, with five of his men, on complaint entered against him by the Narragansett Sachem _Ninnegrate_, presented himself before the Commissioners, then in session at Plymouth, Mass. _Ninnegrate_, however, not appearing or submitting any proof of his allegations, _Wyandanch_ was acquitted of the charges with much honor. At the same time he was relieved from the payment of the tribute, then four years in arrears, owing to his distressed condition. It is probable that _Cockenoe_ was one of the five men accompanying him on this occasion.