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Indian Names of Places
in Plymouth, Middleborough, Lakeville and Carver Plymouth County
Massachusetts
Wachamotusset.
Name of brook mentioned in an adjustment of boundaries
between "Mr. Constant Southworth. and Philip the Sachem." Must have been
near Assawompsett Pond. Probably Tamest Brook.
See Mahchumoo--"waste," "barren;" tuck--"brook,"
with the diminutive es and locative et--"small barren brook."
Wappanuckett (Dr. Thomas Delano's will, 1222),
Waupaunucket, Wappahnucket, Wappond.
A neck of land in Middleborough near Assawompsett Pond.
In deed of one of the tracts of land in Sixteen Shilling Purchase it is
described as follows, "Neck of land commonly cald by the name of Wappond
bounded on the northerly aid with Assawamset Pond and on the westerly sid or
end with a pond commonly called Poksba," May 14, 1675.
Probably from Wapunnukquas--"swallow."
Wappahnucket--" the place of the swallows," now known as Walnut Plain.
Possibly the name was originally the same as Waumpatuck, the old
Indian Sagamore who owned much land in this vicinity.
Waupaunucket--"Village among the hills." (Thomas
Wesson Hist. Midl.)
Waumpaucutt Pond, mentioned as a boundary in
"Wood's, Purchase," 1667. "By ye pond called ye Black Sachems pond, ye
Indian name being Wampaucatt." This, therefor, seems to be another
name of Tespaquin Pond. Probably from Wompi--"white, paug--"pond,"
ut--locative suffix; "at or near the white pond;" referring, perhaps,
to white stones or the white birch trees in or about the pond.
Washanest.
"The Town granted unto Acannootus, 15 acres of land ayt
a place called Washanest. " (Vol. 1, Plymouth Town Records, page
172.)
Wecektuket, "in Kingston."
"Is a brook which joins Jones River from the south, the
native term seems to signify 'little wading.' " (M. H. S. Coll., s. 2, v. 3,
p. 168.) I cannot explain this translation. Possibly Wek-or "week,"
tuck-et--"wigwam brook." (Wigwam is a corruption from wek- or
week or wetu), tuck--"river" or "stream," with a
locative et.
Weweantitt, Wawayontat, Weweantet, Weweantic.
A river forming part of the boundary line between
Middleborough and Carver and flows through Wareham. Dr. Francis Lebanon
bought a large tract of land on the south side of this river, in
Middleborough, in the early part of the eighteenth century (Wesson's History
of Middleborough, p. 336). Probably the word comes from the same root as
Woweaushin-Woweou, etc., conveying the idea of wandering about,
and this description is more applicable to the river than the word crooked,
as in its lower part it expands itself, forming inlets into the country.
Waywayantek or Wewewantett was the Indian
name of the land about Wareham (M. H. S., s. 1, v. 1, p. 138).
Winnapauckett.
A pond mentioned in Gov. Thomas Prince's will, 1673.
"Land on the easterly suite of Namassakes River between
Winnapauckett pond and a tract of land called "the Major's purchase."
From Winne or Wunne--"good," paug--"pond,"
et--"at." "The good pond," "the beautiful pond."
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