[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 = Quaneunt∞unk (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.
[69] Colonial History of New York, vol. xiv. Index, under Tackapousha.