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MATTAKESET — MATTOLE 



[b. a. : 



repr. 1819. Mattakeese.— Hinckley (lOS'i) in Mass. 

 Hist. Soc. Coll., 4th s., v, 133, 1861. Mattakeeset.— 

 Humphrey.? (181.5), ibid., 2d s., iv, 9l', 1816. Mat- 

 takesit.— Riiwsdii and Danforth (1698), ibid., l.st 

 s., x,l'jy-'", 1S09. 



Mattakeset. A former village situated 

 about the site of Duxbury, Plymouth co., 

 Mass. It was probably subject to the 

 Wampanoaix. In 1685 it had 40 inhabit- 

 ants t'xceL'diiit!; 12 years of age. (.i. m. ) 

 Namatakeeset.— Hint'k'k'V (168.5) in Mass. Hist. Soc. 

 Coll., 4th s., V, 133, 1861. 



Mattamuskeet. A village of the Macha- 

 punga, the only one belonging to the tribe 

 in 1700-01, and containing then, accord- 

 ing to Lawson, 30 warriors. Probably 

 situated on the lake of the same name in 

 Hyde CO., N. C. 



Marimiskeet.— Lawson (1714), Hist. Car., 383,repr. 

 1860. Masammaskete.— Col. Rec. N. C. (1713), 11, 

 32,1886. Matamaskite. — Ibid. ,29. Matamuskeet. — 

 Ibid., 31. Mattamuskeets. — Ibid., 45. Mattecum- 

 ska.— Col. Kec. N. C. (1713), n, 2, 1886. Matte- 

 musket.— Ibid., 168. 



Mattanock. A village of the Powhatan 

 confederacy, in 1608, on the w. side of 

 I^ansemond r., near its mouth, in Nanse- 

 mond CO., Va. — Smith (1629), Virginia, 

 I, map, repr. 1819. 



Mattapanient (probably of the same 

 meaning as Mattapony, q. v.). An Al- 

 gonquian tribe or band that formerly 

 lived on Patuxent r., Md , probably in 

 St Marys co. Their principal village, 

 of the same name, may have been at 

 Mattapony cr. A Catholic mission was 

 established there in 1636. In 1651 they, 

 with other's, were removed to a tract on 

 Wicomico r. They were possibly but a 

 band or division of the Conoy (q. v.), 

 and are to be distinguished from the 

 Mattapony of Virginia, sometimes written 

 Mattapanient. (j. m.) 



Matapaman. — Map, fa. 1640 or 16.50, in Maps to 

 Accompany the Kept, of the Comr's on the 

 Bnd'y bet. Va. and Md., 1.S73. Matpanient.— 

 Bozman, Md., l, 141, 1837. Mattapament. — Stra- 

 chey {ca. 1612), Virginia, 39, 1.S49. Mattapanians. — 

 Bozman. Md., n, 421, 1837. Mattapanient. — Smith 

 (1629) , Virginia, l, 118, repr., 1819. Mattapany.— 

 Herrman, Map (1670), in Maps to Accompany 

 the Kept, of the Comr's on the Bnd'v bet. Va. 

 and Md., 1873. Mattpament.— Smith (1629), Vir- 

 ginia, I, map, repr. 1819. Metapawnien. — White 

 (1639), Rclatio Itineris, 63, 1874. 



Mattapoiset (a form of Mattahesec, q. v.). 

 A village, in 1622, near the present Matta- 

 poisett, Plymouth CO., Mass. 

 Matapoisett. — Deed of 1664 in Drake, Bk. Inds., 

 bk., 3, 14, 1848. Mattapoiset. —Watts (1734) in Mas.s. 

 Hist. Soc. Coll., 2d .s., x, 31, 1823. Mattapuist.— 

 Harri.s, Voy. and Trav., i, 856, 1705. Mattapuyst. — 

 Mourt (1622) in Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., 1st s.,viii, 

 258, 1802. 



Mattapony. The proper form of this 

 name, both in Virginia and Maryland, 

 appears to be Mattapanient. although 

 both that and Mattapament occur on 

 Capt. John Smith's map and in his text, 

 the latter being probably a misprint. 

 Heckewelder's attempted interpretation 

 of ' bad bread ' , or ' no bread at all ' , based 

 on the theory that it contains the word 

 j)ona, 'jione', 'bread', is evidently with- 

 out value. The Mattapony is a small tribe 



of the Powhatan confederacy (q. v. ) living 

 in 1608, according to Smith, on Mattapony 

 r.,Va., and having 30 men, or a total of 

 perhaps a little more than 100. On 

 Smith's map the town "Mattapanient" 

 appears to be located in the upper part 

 of the present James City co., near the 

 mouth of Chickahominy r. In 1781, ac- 

 cording to Jefferson (Notes on Va., 1825), 

 they still numbered 15 or 20, largely of 

 negro blood, on a small reservation on 

 the river of their name. These figures, 

 however, are probably too low, as the 

 name is still preserved by about 45 per- 

 sons of mixed blood on a small state 

 reservation on the s. side of Mattapony 

 r., in King William co. These survivors 

 are closely related to the Pamunkey, 

 whose reservation is only 10 m. distant. 

 See M((tl(ij><n/ient. (.t. m. ) 



Mattapament.— Smith, Hist. Va. (1624), Arljer ed., 

 347, 1884. Mattapanient. — Ibid., map. Mattapo- 

 mens. — Boudintit, Star in the West, 127, 1816. Mat- 

 tapoments.— Macaulev, X, Y.,n, 168, 1829. Matta- 

 ponies.— .Jefferson (1781), Notes, 130, 1825. 



Mattawamkeag ( ' a bar of gravel divides 

 the river in two.' — Vetromile). A princi- 

 pal Penobscot village formerly on Penob- 

 scot r., about Mattawamkeag point, 

 Penobscot co., Me. 



Madawamkee. — Gyle.s (1736) in Drake, Trag. 

 Wild., 78, 1841. Mattawamkeag.— Godfrey in Me. 

 Hist. Soc. Coll.. vn, 4, 18/6. Mattawankeag.— Ve- 

 tromile, Abnakis, 52-53, 1866. MettaSakik,— Mau- 

 rault, Abenakis, v, 1866. Montawanekeag. — Conf. 

 (1786) in Me. Hist. Soc. Coll., vii, 10, 1876. 



Mattawan ('river of shallows.' — Hew- 

 itt) . A popular name for the Algonquian 

 Indians living on Mattawan r., a branch 

 of upper Ottawa r., Ontario. They are 

 probably a part of the Nipissing or of the 

 Temiscaming, q. v. Cf. Maiawachkarhii. 



(j. M.) 

 Mataouiriou, — Jes. Rel. 1672, 46, 1858. Mataovan. — 

 La Hontan (1703), New Voy., map, 1735. Mata- 

 ■wang.— Wm. Jones, inf'n, 1905 (correct form). 

 Matawin — McLean, Hudson Bay, I, 87, 1849. 



Mattawottis. A former Diegueno ran- 

 cheria under the mission of San Miguel de 

 la Frontera, n. Lower California. — Tavlor 

 in Cal. Farmer, May 18, 1860. 



Mattinacook. A band of the Penobscot 

 who, in 1876, occupied Mattinacook id. 

 in Penobscot r., near Lincoln, Penobscot 

 CO., Me. 



Mattanawcook. — Me. Hist. Soc. Coll., vii, 103, 

 note, 1876. 



Mattituck {Matuh'tugk, 'place without 

 wood', or 'badly wooded.' — Trumbull). 

 A Corchaug village, about 1640, on the 

 site of the present Mattituck, Suffolk co. , 

 Long Island, N. Y. (j. m.) 



Mattatock.— Trumbull, Ind. Names Conn., 27, 1881 

 (early form). Mattatuck. — Records (1649) in 

 Thompson, Long Id., i, 378, 1843. Mattetuck.— 

 Thompson, ibid., 392. 



Mattole ( Wishosk name) . An Athapas- 

 can tribe whose principal settlements 

 were along Bear and Mattole rs., Cal. 

 They resisted the white race more vigor- 

 ously than the natives of this region 

 generally did and suffered practical exter- 



