THE " QUONAHASSIT" PIONEERS. loi 



by boat to Wessagusset, and rescued the colony after 

 having stabbed the two bragging braves, Wituwaniat and 

 Pecksuot.* 



Many pioneers must have passed silently and alone over 

 the Indian trails of Cohasset, and many without leaving 

 any written record must have explored in boats our Cove, 

 as well as other inlets and rivers of Massachusetts Bay. 

 The characteristic rocks of our Cohasset shore are shown 

 upon Alexander's map as early as the year 1624.! 



Besides this, at least one good map maker must have 

 found our harbor and our hills before any settlements were 

 made even in Hingham. 



This unknown explorer wrote the name Conyhassett by 

 an inlet upon his map, and marked with the letter " m " the 

 rocks at the entrance of the harbor. Hills and woods he 

 indicated, and the old Indian trail leading from Dorchester 

 to Plymouth he traced in dotted lines several miles south 

 of Cohasset. 



Hingham had no name nor settlement, though the few 

 houses at Weymouth Fore River were named Wessagus- 



* For full account see Gov. E. Winslow's Good News from New England. 

 tSee Winsor's Narrative and Critical History of America, Vol. Ill, p. 306. 



The Winthrop Map on the opposite page may be better understood by the follow- 

 ing key : — ■ 



"The wayeto Plimouth," shown from " Dorchester" village across " Naponsett" 

 River near an Indian village, is traced by dotted lines somewhat away from the 

 mouths of rivers, until it passes off the margin of the map several miles south of 

 Cohasset. 



" Conyhassett " harbor or river is shown, with the characteristic ledges outside. 



Turkey Hill, Town Hill, and others are indicated. 



No Hingham village nor Bare Cove settlement is shown, for the map was made 

 at or before 1633. 



" Wessaguscus " (Weymouth) is shown, the only settlement between Dorchester 

 and Plymouth. 



The Blue Hills are seen on the extreme left. 



Boston shows a flag flying from Fort Hill. 



" Rocksbury," "Stony River," "Muddy River," " Charls River," " Newtowne " 

 (Cambridge), " Watertowne," and some other places are named upon the map, 

 though very illegibly. 



The original map reaches far enough north to include the Merrimac River. 



