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Subject: Re: Where was "Hog Neck" Southold in 1753?
Date: 11 Jul 2004 04:22:06 -0600

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In addition to Hog Neck in Southampton there is a Great Hog Neck and a Little Hog Neck in Southold. Little Hog Neck is the area southeast of Cutchogue leading to Nassau Point [the area Carolee Diamond identified in a response to a posting on a different thread]. Great Hog Neck is south of the business center of the village of Southold, the area around Cedar Beach Point and Paradise Point. You can see them on an early 20th century map at <http://www.newsday.com/extras/lihistory/spectown/map30n.jpg>; Little Hog Neck to the west of Hog Neck Bay, and Great Hog Neck to the east of the bay. The names are still used in a 1987 New York State atlas published by DeLorme Mapping Company.

Besides these ones in Southold and Southampton, there were also areas called Hog Neck in the towns of Brookhaven and Oyster Bay according to the Long Island Gazetteer by Proehl and Shupe. It was a pretty common name on early Long Island.

Ned Smith

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