Tallmadge's trek across the island is marked by Brookhaven Town historic markers along the original route. After the war was won, Long island and the Moriches area had another burden added. This time the new state of New York, which claimed that because of the British occupation, Suffolk residents were unable to contribute their fair share to the war effort, imposed on Suffolk a tax levy of 10,000 pounds to make up for it. Soldiers and their families returning from exile in Connecticut found that the British had burned, destroyed or confiscated anything of value during the seven year occupation. They had the job of rebuilding their homes and farms.
Early accounts use many different spellings, sometimes in the same document, to mean the same thing.
The settlers had a great deal of trouble trying to write the Indian words as they sounded to them. Indeed, they had trouble with some of the English words and names also. Most of the people were not educated as we think of education today. These early Puritans did attempt to educate their children so they could read the bible - and count money. Scituate Lying and Being bounded on the west By a River on the west side of Moritches neck called Paquatuck, on the north by a line from the head of said river to a white oake tree marked on the west of the neck called Watchogue By a pond and thence running East to Seatuck River, on the East by Seatuck River, aforesaid and on the South by the Sea.