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the township, toward .Rochester, is called Weantick. This may be 

 Wawayontat. Falmouth still goes by the name of Sokonesset, and is 

 undoubtedly the Sokones mentioned by Gookiu. There is a place on 

 Buzzard's Bay, on Sandwich side, called Pokesset ; but I have been told 

 Indians used to call it Poughkeeste. It is the second parish in Sand- 

 wich, about 8 miles southwest from my house [near the meeting-house 

 of the first parish], but not more than two leagues across the bay to the 

 mouth of Weantick River, and lies on a line between Wareham and 

 Falmouth, adjoining northerly on Cataumut, which is rather in the edge 

 of Falmouth than Sandwich, as you supposed. Can Pokesset be the 

 same as Pispogutt? There is a neck of laud within Pokesset, called 

 Pachawesit. This seems as dissimilar as the other. The place where 

 Doctor Bourne's house stands, viz, about two miles up Manumit River, 

 and near the Herring Pond, is called Pumpisset ; and a neck of land in 

 Wareham, next to Monument, or Manumit, and parted from it by a 

 small gut, is called Cowesit. The syllable pis is in one of them ; but 

 Pokesset was the most noted Indian place. Besides these places, the 

 writer has heard of the following places, which are spelled phonetically : 

 Scusset, the next village westerly from this; Unset, or Onset, and Quan- 

 sit, two little bays, or shores at the bottom of Buzzard's Bay, within 

 Wareham ; Cohasset, the gut between Manumit and Cowesit ; Wenau- 

 mut, a neck within Pokesset; Mashne, an island in Buzzard's Bay; 

 Quisset, an inlet in Falmouth, north shore Buzzard's Bay ; Nobska, near 

 Wood's Holl, a bluff shore or head; Naashawn, JSTashawinna, Cutta- 

 hunka, Pesk, Elizabeth's Islands; Menemsha, a bight on the Vineyard 

 shore; Quashne, or Quashnet, a river in Mashpee; Shanton, or Scorton, 

 the lower end of Sandwich ; Muset, a creek in Sandwich off Spring Hill ; 

 Skunkamug, south side of the parish of Great Marshes; Hockanum, 

 between Yarmouth and Nobscusset ; the east parish of Yarmouth ; Suet, 

 or Sesuet, a neck in Yarmouth ; Naamskeket, the south side of Harwich ; 

 Skeket, or Skaket, the lower part of Harwich next to Eastham. The 

 following summary of the Indian population at different times on Cape 

 Cod is found as a foot note to a part of Gookin's Historical Collections, 

 page 201, printed in 1792 : u Christianity met with much better success 

 in Plymouth than in Massachusetts. In the year 1G85, the praying In- 

 dians in this colony amounted to fourteen hundred and thirty-nine, be- 

 sides boys and girls under twelve years of age, who were supposed to be 

 more than three times that number." (Hutch., vol. i, p. 349.) 



In the year 1693 there were within the limits of Eastham (which then 

 included Wellfleet and Orleans) 505 adult Indians, to whom Mr. Treat 

 preached; 214 adults, besides stragglers, at Mashpee and places adja- 

 cent, under the care of Mr. Rowland Cotton, minister of Sandwich; 180 

 Indians, to whom Mr. Thomas Tupper preached; and 500 more, under 

 the care of Mr. John Cotton, minister of Plymouth. (Matthew May- 

 hew's Narrative, pp. 46-53. See also Mather's Magnolia, book vi, p. 60, 

 and Neal's Hist., chap, vi, p. 256.) Iu the year 1764 there still remained 



