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Indian Names of Places
in Plymouth, Middleborough, Lakeville and Carver Plymouth County
Massachusetts
Paukohkoesseke.
Boundary in Indian deed, 1678, Ply. Col. Rec., v. 1, p.
231. Possibly the place from where the pine trees had been cleared. From
Poquaug--"cleared land," koo or kowas--"pine tree," and
auke--"place." Probably on Agway River near White Island Pond.
Pocaest, Pocassett.
Indian name of little brook running into the north end
of Pocksha Pond in Middleborough. Boundary in Sixteen Shilling Purchase.
"The brook is called by the name of Pocaset." 1675.
Paugeset would mean "near" or "at the small
pond.''
Pochaboquitt.
Mentioned as a boundary in the "South Purchase," 1673.
"To a place called Pochaboquett." Probably from Pauchau or Pohchau
which signifies "to divide in two'' and Paug--"pond," with the
locative suffix. This place may possibly have been the name of a little pond
which seems to divide the river into two brooks, Green Brook and Stony
Brook.
Pauchau-paug-et--"the dividing in two," pond.
Pohsha, Pocksha.
In reality the eastern part of Assawompsett Pond in
Lakeville. Assawompsett Pond, after becoming very narrow in the eastern
apart turns to the north and south, expands again and forms Pocksha Pond.
From this circumstance the name probably derived.
Pahchau, Pauchau, Pohchau --"He turns
aside-deviate," Pohshaog describes "A place where they divide in
two." (See Chupipoggut.)
Pokesha--" It is broke." (R. W.)
Ponaquahot Pond.
Mentioned as a boundary in "Running of the Town of
Middleborough Bounds." (Town Records, April 6,1666.) This was probably the
Indian name of Long Pond in Lakeville. Another name of Long Pond may have
been Namatakeeset (I. W. Putnam, First Church of Middleborough).
Poking and Quassaponakin are Indian place names in
Worcester County.
Penuggueog would probably mean--"a place on the
bank" (of a river or a pond).
Polapda, Polypody, Polypode.
Polapoda Cove, often erroneously given as an
Indian name, is mentioned in the Town Records of Plymouth as boundary land
laid out in 1694, also in Town Records, Oct. 7, 1701, Polapoda Cove
is mentioned as being in the neighborhood of the South Meadows. "To extend
from Polapoda Cove to Beaver Dam Pond." In the same record the name
is also written Pollapod and Pollapody.
"Polypody Cove, "in Carver, a "place of brakes."
(M. H. S. Coll., s. 2, v. 4, p. 275.) The name is derived from the word
polypody, a species of ferns. A large rock in Middleborough is called
Ploypode Rock and ferns grow very luxuriantly all about it. Mentioned in
South Purchase.
Pookpoawkquachoo, or Monhonkenock
An early name of river in Middleborough mentioned as a
boundary in "Running of the Town Bounds," April 6, 1686. The present name of
this stream is Black Brook, which flows into Great Quitticas Pond about "Six
miles south of wading place over Namasket River. "I believe this name
originally was the name of a hill in this vicinity and later given to the
brook.
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