While we know our northern friends may not feel it, in the South, Spring is
here. So we thought we'd share a few of our gardening sites appropriate
for this time of the year. Along with gardening, there's grilling, and getting
ready to diet so that you can fit back into that bathing suit this summer!
B- Massachusetts Indian Villages, Towns and
Settlements
A complete listing of all the Indian villages,
towns and settlements as listed in Handbook of Americans North of Mexico.
Baston. La Salle in 1681 speaks of the Indians of
Baston, by which he means those adjacent to Boston and that part of New England.
La Salle (1681) in Margry, Dec., ii, 148, 1877.
Betty's Neck. A place in Middleboro, Plymouth co.,
Mass., where 8 Indian families lived in 1793, and took its name from an Indian
woman (Drake, Bk. Inds., bk. 3, 10, 1848). The people seem to have been
Nemasket and subject to the Wampanoag. (J. M.)
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Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico, Frederick Webb Hodge, 1906
