Indian Names of Places in Worcester County, Massachusetts: With Interpretations of Some of Them |
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Adin Ballou Algonquian Alum pond auke believe the name Blackstone river Boundary in Indian brook called Coll Connecticut deed of Brookfield deed of Rutland derived early records fishing place flows Gookin History of Worcester Hubbardston I. N. Conn Indian deed Indian name Indian praying towns Kekamowadchaug lake Lancaster large pond Leicester locative affix locative suffix Lunenburg Mass Massachusetts meadow meaning Mendon mentioned Milford Miss Larned Miss Larned's Monomonack mountain name given name of land Nashaway Nashua river Naukeag Nichewaug Nipmuck Nipmug North Brookfield Nourse old deeds ompsk original deed original name Oxford paug place names Princeton Quabaug pond Quaboag Quaboag river Quinebaug Quinebaug river rock Roger Williams spelled stone stream Sturbridge Tantiusques Tatnick Temple Hist Towtaid tract of land translation tree tribe Trumbull says village Wachusett Ware river West Brookfield Westborough Whitney's History wigwam William Pynchon Winchendon Windham Woodstock Worc Worcester county word Wullamanick
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Page 30 - Ocean, the first thing which strikes us is, that, the north-east and south-east monsoons, which are found the one on the north and the other on...
Page 6 - I desire to see it done before I die, and I am so deep in years, that I cannot expect to live long; besides, we have but one man, viz. the Indian Printer, that is able to compose the sheets, and correct the press with understanding.
Page 7 - ... the place, or the animals that resorted to it; occasionally, its position, or direction from places previously known, or from the territory of the tribe by which the name was given. * * * The same name might be, in fact it very often was, given to more places than one. * * * The methods of Algonkin synthesis are so exactly prescribed, that the omission or displacement of a consonant or (emphasized) vocal, necessarily modifies the signification of the compound name, and may often render its interpretation...
Page 16 - A school was here established, where the Bible was read and studied in the Indian language. Young men were here educated and sent into the neighboring towns to preach the gospel (as Christian teachers).
Page 16 - Some, who had lived within a few miles of it since childhood, told me they had never had the curiosity to try the ascent. One man, who lived within half a mile of the base of the western hill, had never been on any of the others. The name is unmistakably of Indian origin. General Gookin, in his " Historical Collections of the Indians in New England...
Page 45 - ... locative suffix, in or en. A curious indication that this was the original signification is the fact that the pond in this tract of land has always been called
Page 49 - A quarry of rock, valued for its sharpening properties, gave its name to a strip of land east of the Quinebaug. Manhumsqueeg...
Page 38 - It denotes a bay or cove that has a narrow inlet from a river or the sea. Eliot uses pmtuppog and -pag, for 'bay,' in Joshua xv. 2, 5 ; mod. Abnaki, podebag. The literal meaning is, a 'bulging out' or 'jutting' (pootdae) of the water, inland.