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!
Nanepashemet. A Nipmuc chief of considerable note
in the early days of the Massachusetts colonies. His home was in Medford,
Middlesex county, near Mystic pond. His house, it is said, unlike others,
was elevated on a scaffold about 6 ft above the ground, on a hill, at the
bottom of which was his fort. He was killed about 1619. His widow, who
subsequently married Webcowit, assumed the chieftaincy and was known as
the Squawsachem of the Nipmuc. He left 5 children, one known as Sagamore
James became sachem of Saugus; another, the sachem of Winnesimet.
Tom Nepanet. A Christian
Nipmuc, the faithful and valued friend of the Massachusetts colonists
during the King Philip war in the 17th century. The English, desirous of
negotiating with the enemy for the release of certain white captives,
chose Nepanet as their emissary, and although confined with others on
all island in Boston harbor, he consented to undertake the mission. He
started for the Indian camp, Apr. 12, 1676, and although unsuccessful in
the first attempt, it was chiefly through his initiative and subsequent
efforts that the family of Mr. Rowlandson and other prisoners were
finally released. It was also through his aid that a party of Englishmen
under Capt. Henchman were enabled to surprise a body of the enemy at
Weshakom pond, near Lancaster, Mass., in May, 1676.
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