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Indian Names of Places
in Plymouth, Middleborough, Lakeville and Carver Plymouth County
Massachusetts
Tionet, Tihonet.
"An angle of Plymouth that nearly touches the sea at
Wareham " (M. H. S. Coll., s. 2, v. 3, p. 175).
Tannag (or Taunek R. W.) means "a crane."
"Taunek, the 'crane' is doubtless the name applicable rather to the
rocky shore or point actually within that town where these birds seek their
food." (M. H. S. Coll., s. 2, v. 3, p. 175.)
If this is the derivation, the word is much corrupted
and part of it lost. Taunek-aug or Taunek-aug-set, would
probably mean a place where cranes were usually to be found. The home of the
cranes.
"That small part of Plymouth which was annexed to
Wareham, January, 1827 " (History of Plymouth, p. 159,W .T. D.).
Tihonet Pond near the boundary land of Wareham,
Plymouth, and Carver.
Titicut, Kehtehticut, Cutuhtikut, Tetiquid, Catuhtkut.
The present name of a town in the northwestern part of
Middleborough. A settlement was made at Titicut in 1637 by Miss
Elizabeth Poole. This land had been conveyed to her, before it had been
reserved for the exclusive use of the Indians. The land in this vicinity was
the old Indian reservation deeded by Chickatabutt, in 1664, to the Indians
on "Catuhtkut River." It was also one of the old Indian praying
towns. "The great river after receiving the waters of the Winetuxet, to
Namasket is commonly called Titicut River, but from there to the sea
is called Taunton Great River. " (M. H. S. Coll., s. 2, v. 7, p. 172.) Dr.
Trumbull says "Kehtehticut (-kehte-tuk-ut) a famous fishing
place 'on the great river' near Taunton, Mass., was abbreviated and
corrupted to Teightaquid-Teghtacutt, etc, and finally to
Titicut as the name of a village in Middleborough."
Kehttetuck signifies the great or principal
river; Kehti--"chief," principal, greatest;" tuck--"a tidal or
broad river." The land probably took the name from the river. The Indian
name of the Blackstone River in Worcester County, Massachusetts, was
Kuttutuck, often written in old deeds "Titicut."
Tuppatwett.
Mentioned as boundary Indian deed of South Purchase
from Tuspaquin July 29, 1673. "And so to a rivers mouth called Tuppatwett
wick runneth into ye pond called Quittuwashet." This is the brook flowing
between Great Quitticas Pond and Snipatuit Pond. Northwest hart of
Rochester.
Tuspaquin, Tispaquin, Tispequin, Tispequn.
A pond in the eastern central part of Middleborough
about two miles northeast of Pockish Pond, so called from Tuspaquin,
the Black Sachem, who inherited much land from Pamantaquash, the Pond
Sachem, by will made in 1668. This pond is mentioned as a boundary in deed
of Twelve Men's Purchase from Tuspaquin. In Wood's Purchase, 1667, a
boundary pond called the .Black Sachem's Pond is the same, and so by the
deed its original Indian name was Waumpaucutt. The Black Sachem who owned
much land in Plymouth County gave many deeds, many in Middleborough. He was
brother-in-law to King Philip and one of his most trusted chiefs. Upon a
promise by Captain Church that the lives of his wife and children and his
own life should be spared he went to Plymouth and gave himself up to the
Governor and his Council, but he was soon after tried and publicly executed.
Tusconnanset.
Mentioned as a boundary of South Purchase from
Tuspaquin, Jan. 23, 1673, "to a river that runneth out of Swanhold unto a
place called Tusconnanset." Probably from the root tooskeonk--"a
wading place." It was probably on South Meadow Brook in Carver not very far
from Wenham.
Tooskeonganit, Tusconnanset--"near the wading
place."
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