Originally named "Musketa Cove"  - it was not so called by reason of any unusual prevalence at that place of the genus Culex, which is said to be so annoying to some of its neighbors, but takes it from a descriptive term in the Indian tongue signifying "Grassy Flats" evidenced in the salt meadows below the site of the old starch factory, in the name of Muscoota in Harlem Flats, at the Muscoot Reservoir, in upper Westchester County, and the Musketaquid River at Concord, Mass. But the implication carried in the name convinced the natives in 1834 that a change would be advantageous, so the town was re-christened Glen Cove . (from The Frost Genealogy, page 11)