Opening from On This Site - Native Long Island

Seabamuck / Sebamuck

Seabamuck is recorded as one of the lesser necks of the Manor of St. George at Mastic, first east of the Connecticut or Carmans River at its mouth. The name appears in a 1675 Brookhaven meadow exchange and on August Graham's 1693 survey for William Smith as Sebamuck. Later forms include Seboinack, Sebonnack, and Sabonack, but this Mastic name is distinguished from Seponack in Southampton. Seabamuck is interpreted as "the river fishing-place," from a word for river and the ending -amuck, a fishing place. Why Place Names Matter “Names root us. They remind us of who we are, where we live, where we come from, and how we see the world.” — Terralingua, What's in A (Indigenous Place) Name? (2024), The Magic of Names and Naming section