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Indian Names of Places
in Plymouth, Middleborough, Lakeville and Carver Plymouth County
Massachusetts
Sawcomst.
Mentioned as a boundary in Henry Wood's Purchase from
Tuspaquin, Aug. 9,1667, --"to that part of ye brook that is stony like to a
fall called Sawcomst." The present name is Fall Brook. In Twelve
Men's Purchase "Fall Brook" is mentioned as a boundary. Possibly the root of
this name is sauk--"a stream flowing out of a pond."
Seipican, Sepaconnet.
The Indian "name of a brook in Rochester, having its
source in Middleborough. From this little stream the Plantation (Rochester)
took its name." (M. H. S. Coll., s. 2, v. 4, p. 253.)
Name of harbor, river, and town in Marion.
Various translations have been given of this name but I
think them doubtful. "Seip means river but only used as a base word
with adjectival prefix-as Missi-sipi " (J. H. T.). Seip--"river."
(R.W.)
Sniptuet, Snipatuit, Senepetuit.
A large pond in the northern part of Rochester near the
Middleborough line. Mentioned as a boundary of South Purchase in Indian deed
of 1673.
Swanhold, Swan Holt.
Mentioned as a boundary in deed of South Purchase from
Tuspaquin, July 23, 1673. The place is described as "a little southeast of
Wellborn Pond." (M. H. S., s. 2, v. 4, p. 274.)
Swanholt. A place in the town of Wellborn, so
called by the first planters in 1642. "Holt was the Saxon name of a wood."
It is a curious fact that swohan-ohke, in the Indian language means
"the south land" or "south place," and Swanhold certainly was in the
neighborhood of the present South Brook and South Meadow. Swanhold
may have been a corruption of Sowhanohke.
Sucktequesite.
A river mentioned as a boundary in "Sixteen Shilling
Purchase" May 14, 1675. "Till it meets with a river called
Suckitucquisite" Running into Great Quittacas Pond. This without doubt
is a corruption of Suckituckeset. Sucki--"black," tuck--"river,"
with the diminutive es and the locative suffix, meaning "at or near
the small black river." This interpretation is probably correct, as the
present name of this stream is Black Brook.
Several other Indian names have been given to Black
Brook but with the exception of the above I believe all to have been land
names of certain localities in the neighborhood of the brook and then
gradually given to the brook by the early settlers. This occurs to a great
extent throughout New England.
Tamett.
Small brook flowing into the southern extreme of Assawompsett Pond.
Tepikamicut, Tippecunnicut.
An old Indian village mentioned in Indian deed of "Twentysix
Men's Purchase" and also an Indian deed of Tispequin to James Coee. "On the
old Namasket path." The first spelling was in the deed of 1661. This may
also be a corrupted abbreviation of Kehti paquon-oc-et, as
Tippecanoe is supposed to be.
Kehtipoquonunk--"at the great clearing."
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