_Cockoo_, _Cokoo_, _Cockoe_, or _Cakoe_, as his name is variously given in the papers relating to this affair, is evidently an abbreviated form of _Cockenoe_.[58] All the facts recorded in connection with it point to him and to no one else. From the context of the papers, he was a strange Indian, not living up the Hudson river, where it is stated all the other Indians dwelt. That he was acting as an interpreter is evident--a fact which, as I have before observed, was a very rare qualification for an Indian of that period. Humphrey Hughes, whose name appears as one of the witnesses on Cockoo's power of attorney, was a seaman in the employ of Revell, and in his various capacities as a sailor, trader, fisherman, or an inhabitant, is frequently mentioned in the records of both South[59] and East Hampton towns;[60] hence _Cockenoe_ was no stranger to him. Two years afterward Hughes witnessed the renewal of the Montauk Squaw Sachem's whaling grant to John Cooper; therefore, taking all these items of fact into consideration, it is not at all strange that _Cockenoe_ should have been employed by Thomas Revell in buying land from the Indians in Westchester County.
On February 21, 1662[61] (February 11, 1661) _Chekkonnow_ again united with his tribe in the deed known as the "Hither Woods" purchase, "for all the piece or neck of land belonging to _Muntauket_ land westward to a fresh pond in a beach, on this side westward to the place where the old Indian fort stood, on the other side eastward to the new fort that is yet standing, the name of the pond (Fort Pond) is _Quaunontowounk_ on the north, and _Konkhonganik_ on the south,"[62] etc. At this date, as is proven by the above wording of this deed, the Montauks were encamped at the southern part of East Hampton village[63] under the protection of the settlers, in order to escape the invasions of the Narragansetts, and Montauk was temporarily abandoned.
In the same year _Checkanow_ was sent with _Tobis_, another Indian, by order of the _Sachem Squaw_, widow of _Wyandanch_, to mark out John Cooper's whaling limits on the beach to the westward of Southampton.[64]
Some of the boundaries of Huntington, laid out in 1658, being disputed by their neighbors of Oyster Bay, it became necessary to send for _Cockenoe_ that he might identify his former marks. At a town meeting held at Huntington March 8, 1664[65] (26-12-1663). "It was voted that when _Chiskanoli_ come that Mr Wood shall have power to agree with him, and the town to gratifie him to show the boundaries of the necks of meadow at the south bought by the town."