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Indian Names of Places
in Plymouth, Middleborough, Lakeville and Carver Plymouth County
Massachusetts
Patackosi.
"Probably is typical of the Town Brook from Tackosi
"short, narrow "
(M. H. S. Coll., s. 2, v. 3, p. 175) .
In note R in Winthrop's History of New England, Savage
says Patackosi is a part of Plymouth.
I should suppose it might be a corruption or derivation
from Pautuxet.
(See Pautuxet.)
Paukopunnakuk, Pochuppunnukaak.
(1665) -"That weary hill this side of Ellis's called by
the early settlers "Break Heart Hill' " (M. H. S. Coll., s. 2, v. 3, p.
175). I believe the translation of this word to be The place where you turn
aside and take the narrow path. Pohchau "he turns aside" (Del.
Pachgechen--"where the road strikes off "), and Penogok- "where
the path is narrow."
Paukipunnakuk.
Pohchaupeonogok (Eliot's Bible, Matt. 7:13,14).
Assuming this translation to be correct, it is one of
the striking examples of the geographical descriptive use the Indians made
of their place names, for guidance as well as for description. I should
suppose it was the path around the hill.
Patopacassitt.
Indian deed, March 16, 1664. Ply. Co. Rec.,
Patoompack 16 7 4.
Polopacassatt, Poloopacassett.
A pond in the southeastern part of Plymouth. The Indian
name of Little Herring Pond.
"Pacassatt," the greater part of the word,
denotes a place at which "a strait widens-where the narrows open out." On
examination of the formation of Little Herring Pond and noting the gradual
widening out of the very short stream between Great and Little Herring
Ponds, this part of the word certainly describes the locality. The first
part of the name has probably been changed.
Pato--possibly Pehtean- "foaming"-"a
foaming narrows."
Petaug--"a bay; "Potobeg--a bay. "Where
the narrows open out into a small pond."
Pethto, Posett
Boundary, Indian deed, 1678, Ply. Col. Rec., v. 1, p.
231. "To a place called Pethtopoyset & by ye English Hedges pond."
Deed of Ralph Jones (Indian), 1703 (Ply. County Registry of Deeds, book 5,
p. 65). From these deeds and from the etymology of the word I am inclined to
believe that Pethtopogset was Little Herring Pond and the original
Hedges fond; the name of Hedges Pond being transferred to the small pond now
bearing that name.
(See Patopacassitt).
Patuxet, Patuxat.
i.e., Pau't-tuk-es-it--"At the little falls."
The original name of land about Plymouth. On the 16th
of March, 1621, Samosas suddenly appeared at Plymouth and greeted our
Pilgrim Fathers with the words, "Welcome, Englishmen." "He told us the place
where we now live is called Patuxet.- (Mourt's Relation, M. H. S. Coll.,
s.1, v. 8, p. 218-219, in original edition, P. 19 and 20.)
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