LIST OF INDIAN WORDS. 1 79 



Naumox — a district, near the Longley monument, lying west of 

 the East Pepperell road ; said to have been the name of an Indian 

 chief 



Nissitisset — applied to the neighborhood of Hollis, New Hampshire, 

 and to a river and a hill in Pepperell. 



No7iacoicus — a brook in Ayer, though formerly the name was applied 

 to a tract of land in the southerly part of Groton, and is shortened often 

 to Coicus. Major Simon Willard's place was sometimes called Nona- 

 coicus farm ; and his house was the first one burned in the attack by 

 the Indians on the town, March 13, 1676. 



Nubanussuck — a pond in Westford. 



Petaupaukett — a name found in the original petition to the General 

 Court for the grant of the town, and used in connection with the 

 territory of the neighborhood ; sometimes written Petapawage and 

 Petapaway. 



Qi/flsoponagon — a meadow "on the other side of the riuer," men- 

 tioned in the land-grant of Thomas Tarbell, Jr. ; the same word as 

 Quasaponikin, formerly the name of a tract of land in Lancaster, but 

 now given to a meadow and a hill in that town, where it is often con- 

 tracted into Ponikin. 



Shabikin, or more commonly Shabokin, applied to a district in 

 Harvard, bordering on the Nashua, below Still River village. 



Sqiiannacook — a river in the western part of the town flowing into 

 the Nashua ; a name formerly applied to the village of West Groton. 



Tadmuck — a brook and a meadow in Westford. 



Unquetenassett, or Unqnetenorset — a brook in the northerly part of 

 the town ; often shortened into Unquety. 



Waubansconcett — another word found in the original petition for 

 the grant of the town, and used in connection with the territory of 

 the neighborhood. 



The following letter from the late Honorable James Ham- 

 mond Trumbull, whose authority on matters of Indian phi- 

 lology was unquestioned, gives the meaning and derivation of 

 the original name of the town: — 



Hartford, Dec. 22, 1877. 



My dear Dr. Green, — Petaiipauket and Petapawage are two 

 forms of the same name, the former having the locative postposition 

 i^ef), meaning " at " or " on " a place ; and both are corruptions of one 



