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Apocock

A Westhampton meadow-and-upland name related linguistically to Appaquogue, with forms including Apaucuck, Appocock, and Apockac. Apocock connects the Beaverdam Creek area to wetland plants, meadowland, and the practical materials of Native coastal life. Its interpretation as flaggy land or a covering-place points to reeds and other plants used for mats, shelters, and everyday work, while related records also place the creek within a broader Native territorial landscape. Wetlands were knowledgeable homelands shaped by language, ecology, and community use, not empty margins. Apocock is identified as a Westhampton placename for a tract of upland and meadow east of Beaverdam Creek. The source records several spellings and notes that the locality was also called Paucuck. It is kept separate from the East Hampton Appaquogue place because the sources describe different locations. Apocock is...