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!
Mashpee (front
masse-pee or missi-pi, 'great pool.'-Kendall ). A former
settlement on a reservation on the coast of Marsh pee township, Barnstable
county, Mass. The reservation was established in 1660 for the Christian
Indians of the Vicinity, known as South Sea Indians, but it was afterward
recruited from all south east Massachusetts, and even from Long Island. In
1698 they numbered about 285, and their population generally varied from
300 to 400 up to the 19th century. They intermarried with Negroes and
afterward with Hessians; in 1792 the mixed-bloods formed tho-thirds of the
whole body, and the Negro element was then increasing, while the Indians
were decreasing. In 1832 the mixed race was numbered at 315.
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