Genealogical notes of Barnstable families - citizen hylbom blog

78 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
Barnstable which is situate east and northeast of Lewis' Bay.
Sba-qu-uncks,* or Se-cuncke, (Black Goose) inaccurately
written on the Barnstable records Se-runke, was the Scanton
sagamore, and his territory extended into Barnstable and included
the westerly part of Scauton Neck and Great Marshes.
Paup-mun-nucice appears, by his deeds dated in 1648 and in
1658, to have been the Sachem of the South Sea or Massapee Indians.
His territory included all the south part of Barnstable,
(excepting a small tract at Hyannis that belonged to I-yan-
NOUGH,) Massapee and Falmouth. He resided at a neck called
Cot-o-ches-et.
Names of Places. Some Indian names of place are obsolete
; others have been I'etained, and some have been changed into
corresponding or other English names. The following list illustrates
the practice of
made:
our ancestors, to which reference has been
INDIAN NAMES. ENGLISH NAMES.
Mai^ta-kee-set, Old or Common Fields.
Oum-ma-quid, Sandy Neck.
Oo-a or Cotuit, The same.
San or 8a-tu-ite, Cotuit Port.
Pey^me-chit, The same.
Kok-a^cho-ise, (The farrows,) The same.
Cok-a-cho-ise, (Island) Little Oyster Island.
Se-po-ese or Sepuit, The same.
Oot-a-che-sett, Obsolete.
Sip-nes-set, Obsolete.
Was-ko-tus-soo, Obsolete.
Mis-tic, The Indian Ponds.
Skon-ko-net, The same.
Chun-ko-mug, Oyster river.
We-qua-quet, The same.
Tamahappaseeacon, Tarn's Neck.
Tanno^s Land, Hyannis.
Mos-keeh-tuck-qut, Great Marshes.
By these names the principal places in Barnstable are yet
known. Within the last quarter of a century attempts have been
made to banish some of these old names, by giving to the Post
Offices a different one, namely :
To Santuit, Cotuit Port.
Oyster Island, Osterville.
Mistic, or the Ponds, Marston's Mills.
We-qua-quet, Centreville.
If the new names are better than the old, then something has
been gained by the changes. Mb^t of them were effected by the
action of a few persons. They signed petitions to have Post
*From Segnt, black, and Wam-poh-tuk, goose, according to Cotton. As the name of
the goose is a word in imitation of its cry, it is not surprising that they differ. Or the name
may be from Se-quun-nock, the horse foot.