The Indian Place Names On Long Island And Islands Adjacent With Their Probable

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226. NANEMOSET: the name of a brook or creek of uncertain location. De Kay places it in Southampton. "In 1663, the inhabitants of Setauket entered into an agreement with Capt. John Scott, to become copartners in a tract of land bounded easterly with Nanemoset Brook, westerly with the Nessaquaque east line, runing south to the middle of the Island" (Thompson's L. I. , vol. Ii. , p. 321). I once believed this to be a personal name similar to Samoset, but as Scott conveyed land bounded by "Quacons
...it" River (Wading River), this is probably another name for that stream or its tributaries, where the Indians fished, and is a variation of the same name men- tioned in the Indian deed of Brookhaven, 1655, 152 Indian Place-Names Namoss-es-et, "at or about the fish-place. " Eliot has Mishe ketahhane namossit, "as the fish of the great sea" (Ezekiel xlvii. , 10). The com- ponents of the word are: namos, "fish"; -es-et, "at or near. " 227. NAOSH: a name applied to Sandy Hook, N. Y. Harbor, by Henry R.

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