A slightly different version of the Lady of the Lake.

The legend refers to an Indian girl named Ronkonkoma whose father was a Setauket Sachem. She loved a pale faced boy by the name of Hugh Birdsall. Her father would not allow her to marry "a foe of her race" and banned him from Lake Ronkonkoma. (The Lake was called Sachems Pond back then) Hugh, lived on the bank of the Connetquot River in his "Log Built Cot" for seven years. The lake (according to the legend) had a path underground to the Connetquot river and scrolls dropped in the lake would float through the passage to Hugh. One evening on the river a scroll passed through statingthat the Indian girl would join him. The next morning a "bark" (canoe) was seen on the tide and in it was seated his beautiful bride, dead surrounded by Hemlock & Pine. Hugh leaped into the craft and together they were swept out to sea so that they could be together "beyond the Grave". The lake still weeps , "year seven it rises, year seven it falls, for the martyred maid by the sire slain".