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!
C- 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.
Capahnakes. Possibly a misprint in tended for the
inhabitants of Capawac, or Marthas Vineyard, off the s. coast of Massachusetts.
The form occurs in Boudinot, Star in the West, 129, 1816.
Cataumut. A village formerly in Falmouth township,
Barnstable co., Mass., probably near Canaumut neck. In 1674 there were some
Praying Indians in it, and there were still a few mixed bloods there in 1792. It
was in the territory of the Nauset. (J. M.)
Chabanakongkomun ( boundary fishing place. Trumbull). A
village of Praying Indians established about 1672 near Dudley, Worcester co.,
Mass. In 1674 it contained about 45 inhabitants. In later times the Indians
about Dudley were known as the Pegan tribe and continued to live there after the
settlement of the town. Ten of them were still on a reservation in Dudley in
1793. They were classed as Nipmuc. (J. M.)
Chachaubunkkakowok. A village of Christian Indians in
E. Massachusetts in 1684. Eliot (1684) in Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., lets., m,
185, 1794.
Chaubaqueduck. A former village on Martha s Vineyard,
Mass., or on Chappaquiddick id., just E. of it. In 1698 it had about 138
inhabitants. Boyd derives the word from chippi-aquidne, "separated
island."
Coassitt (at the pines. Hewitt). An Indian rendezvous
during King Philip's war of 1675; situated about 56 m. above Hadley, Mass.
(Appleton, 1675, in Barber, Mass. Hist. Coll., 294, 1839).
Possibly Coosuc (q. v.).
Coatuit. A village of Praying Indians, probably
belonging to the Nauset, near Osterville, Barnstable co., Mass., in 1674. Bourne
(1674) in Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., 1st s., i, 197, 1806.
Cohannet (probably from quuneuet, or quuiunet,
long). A former Wampanoag village about Fowling Pond, near Taunton, Bristol co.,
Mass. King Philip often made it a hunting station. When John Eliot and others
began their missionary work among the Indians, a part of those at Cohannet went
to Natick, but the majority removed to Ponkapog about 1654. (J. M.)
Conohasset. A Massachuset village formerly about
Cohasset, Norfolk co., Mass. The site was sold by the Indians in 1635.
Cooxissett. A village, probably in Ply mouth co. ,
Mass. , having about 160 inhabitants in 1685. Mentioned by Hinckley (1685) in
Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., 4th s., v, 133, 1861.
Cuactataugh. A village, probably be longing to the
Patuxent, on the E. bank of Patuxent r., in Anne Arundel co., Md., in 1608.
Smith (1629), Virginia, i, map, repr. 1819.
Cummaquid. A village subject to the Wampanoag, formerly at
Cummaquid harbor, Barnstable co., Mass. Qyannough, from whom Hyannis takes its
name, was chief in 1621-23. Hyanaes village still existed in 1755. ( J. M.)
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Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico, Frederick Webb Hodge, 1906
