[FN] There were two places bearing the name of Fire-place, one on the north side of the island on Gardiner's Bay, and one on the south side. The latter is referred to here.
Minasseroke, quoted as the name of Little Neck, town of Brookhaven, probably means "Small-stone land" or place--_Min-assin-ohke, r_ and _n_ exchanged.
Patchogue, Pochough, Pachough, the name of a village in the town of Brookhaven, Suffolk County, on Patchough Bay, is probably met in Pochaug, Conn., which Dr. Trumbull read from _Pohshâog,_ where two streams form one river, signifying, "Where they divide in two." The name was early extended to a clan known as the Pochoughs, later Patchoogues, who seem to have been a family of the Onchechaugs, a name probably the equivalent of _Ongkoué_ (Moh.), "beyond," with _-ogue_ (ohke), "land beyond," _i. e._ beyond the bay. [FN] (See Moriches.)
[FN] Otherwise written _Unquetauge_--"land lying at Unquetauge, on the south side of Long Island, in the county of Suffolk." Literally, "Land beyond;" "on the further side of; in the same direction as, and further on or away than." _Onckeway,_ a place beyond Stamford, on Connecticut river. (Col. Hist. N. Y.) "_Ongkoué,_ beyond Pequannuc river." (Trumbull.)
Cumsequogue is given in will of William Tangier Smith as the name of what is now known as Carman's River, flowing to Bellport Bay. It is probably a pronunciation of _Accomb-suck-ohke,_ "Land or place at the outlet beyond." The record name of Bellport is Occombomeck, Accobamuck, etc., meaning, "Fishing-place beyond," which, as the deeds show, was a fishing-place at a freshwater pond, now dried up. The name is readily confused with Aquebogue.
Moriches, a neck of land "lying at Unquetague, on the south side of Long Island, being two necks called by ye names of _Mariges_ and _Namanock_" (Cal. N. Y. Land Papers, 45), is now in the town of Brookhaven. Namanock seems, from the locative, to be a corruption of _Nam'e-ohke,_ "Fish-place"--Namanock or Namecock. (Trumbull.) [FN] _Moriches,_ or _Mariges,_ is a corruption of Dutch _Maritches_ (Morichi, Mariche), from _Moriche Palmita_ (Latin), meaning, in popular use, any plant thought to resemble a palm. _Mauritia_ a species of Mauriticæ, or South-American palm, so called in honor of Prince Maurice of Nassau. (See Palmagat.)