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Enaughquamuck — Former Inlet Area

Enaughquamuck marked a limit in seventeenth-century agreements over coastal resources within Unkechaug territory. Its exact inlet is uncertain; this pin provides orientation to the barrier beach south of Mastic. The coastline moved, but the records still preserve Native authority, named leaders and negotiated resource rights. An approximate map location can introduce that history without pretending the seventeenth-century shoreline is known exactly. Enaughquamuck appears as a boundary in agreements concerning the beach and drift whales—whales washed ashore—within Unkechaug territory. The history includes the Unkechaug sachems Tobacus and Winecroscum, Wyandanch, Lyon Gardiner and Anthony Waters. Strong places these negotiations within a landscape of Native authority over coastal resources. 2 , 3 Tooker dates the agreement to July 28, 1659. It concerned whale bodies and bones coming ashore...