Page 22.
Watch Hill is a prominent hill on the Beach opposite Patchogue.
Page 41.
Quanch is a landing-place on the Beach opposite Otis's Point.
Page 46.
Between the years 1710 and 1720 as many as twenty whales were taken in a
single season by the crews on the Beach.
Page 47.
Fiddleton is a mile and a half west of Quanch.
Pickety Rough is a strip of beach east of Point o' Woods, so called
because of the prickly growth of bushes there.
Page 59.
"The Gore in the Hills" was a name given to a tract of land near
Yaphank, over which a dispute arose in the last century. This dispute
was settled by arbitration in 1753.
Page 60.
"Squasux"--the Indian name for the landing on Carman's River, at the end
of the Brookhaven Neck road.
The last owner of the house here alluded to was the late Joseph Carman.
Page 62.
"The Inlet" referred to began to close up in the early part of this
century. Small coasting vessels sailed out of this inlet as late as
1816. The inlet kept filling in, however, and the small channel was at
last blocked by a brig which went ashore at the mouth of it. Soon after
the channel filled up completely. This brig was loaded with grindstones,
and on this account was popularly called the "Grindstone Brig." This
spot of beach has been known ever since as "Old Inlet." It is opposite
the extreme eastern end of Bellport.
Pages 63 and 64.
This incident actually occurred as here related.
Page 65.
Between the years 1780 and 1785 the persecution of Judge William Smith
by certain townspeople was so great that he was compelled, in order to
save his life, to give up a part of his estate to them.
His barns were burned to the ground, with a loss of thirty horses, and
all his orchards were girdled. The burning of his dwelling was intended,
but for some cause this intention was not carried out.
He had, moreover, a narrow escape from being shot through his bedroom
window as he was going to bed. It so happened that his wife was all the
time between him and the window, and the three men outside could not
cover him with their muskets without covering her at the same time.
Judge William Smith lived at the Manor of St. George (Smith's Point)
where the late Egbert Tangier Smith resided nearly the whole of his
life.
Page 99.
The landing, now a thing of the past, was on the shore now embraced in
Wood Acres--the estate of Mr. George T. Lyman at Bellport.
Page 124.
Clam Hollow is situated midway between Bellport and Brookhaven. Within
the past forty years the heavy woods have been cut down, the road made
somewhat straighter, the hollow raised several feet, and the western
hill cut down.
Brewster's Brook, previously called Dayton's Brook, but known for the
past sixty years as Osborn's Brook, is in the eastern part of Bellport
at the foot of the hill.
Page 128.
The Mills was the old name for South Haven because of the grist and saw
mills situated there at the foot of the pond.
Page 137.
"Near Southampton," etc., about a mile west of "St. Andrews by the Sea."
Page 139.
After the breaking up of the ship, it was the custom of certain farmers
in the fall, when the neap tides would permit, to plow along the shore,
and the waves cutting over the upturned furrows would wash out these
Spanish coins.
Page 143.
The present residence alluded to was known for a long time as the Corse
Place.
Champlin's stood where the South Side Club House now stands.
Page 149.
"Inlet near the Manor of St. George." See note to page 62.
Page 171.
"Penataquit"--an Indian word--the early post-office name of Bay Shore.
Page 173.
Long Cove is about three-quarters of a mile east of Watch Hill.