Opening from On This Site - Native Long Island

Wooruskhouse (Probable Copiague Neck)

Rev. Azariah Horton repeatedly mentioned Wooruskhouse in 1741-1743 and located it about three miles from West Neck. The distance, his south-shore travel, the Town of Babylon's historic neck sequence, and the name's possible reference to a point of land make Copiague Neck the strongest modern inference, but not a proven identification. Wooruskhouse records an eighteenth-century Native community landscape along Babylon's south shore. A probable marker restores that name to the map while making the limits of the surviving evidence visible instead of turning Horton's distance note into false certainty. Wooruskhouse survives through the journal of missionary Azariah Horton. Tooker reported a consistent spelling and a distance of three miles from West Neck, now the westernmost neck in Amityville, but did not preserve a compass direction. The Town of Babylon historian maps a west-to-east...