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Fort Neck (House) · Library of Congress

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The name Massapequa or historically Marsapeague means “great water land”.

The first occupants were a band of Algonquian speakers, the Massapequa people, one of the 13 tribes of Long Island, a subgroup of the Lenape people. At first, most of the Massapequa people were friendly and helpful to the Europeans, but then, around 1658, merchants from the Town of Oyster Bay tricked Chief Tackapausha into selling the land. He tried to rectify this misunderstanding, but remained unsuccessful.

In 1670 (35 years after the Europeans initially settled there), only a few Native Americans were left on the Island.

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