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Ketchaponack

Ketchaponack is a Southampton placename for a neck of land in the Westhampton Beach area, in the western part of Southampton town on Quantuck Creek near the historic West Hampton post office area. Ketchaponack was a named neck in the Westhampton landscape of salt marsh, freshwater and bay access. Its history includes reserved meadow as well as the later colonial division of the surrounding land. Tooker, pp. 80–81 A 1663 record cited by Tooker mentions five acres of salt marsh reserved at Ketchaponack. In the town’s 1686 division, Aspatuck and Monabaugs swamp helped locate the neck. These descriptions show why a single village-center point cannot stand for all the resources and boundaries attached to the name. Tooker, pp. 80–81 The 1686 town-book descriptions can be read together to compare the neighboring necks, waterways and crossings. Southampton town records, vol. II, printed pp....