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POCAN FODUNK 



[b. a. e. 



Eggleston (1879); Adams, Chapters of 

 Eden, 1871; Bushnell in Am. Anthrop., 

 IX, no. 1, 1907. (a. f. c. j. n. b. h. ) 



Pocan. One of the names of the poke- 

 weed [Phytolacca decandra), also known 

 as pocan-bush; practically the same word 

 SLSpuccoon (q. v.) and of the same origin, 

 from a Virginian dialect of Algonquian. 

 See Poke. (a. f. c. ) 



Pocapawmet. A Massachuset village, in 

 1614, on the s. shore of Massachusetts 

 bay.— Smith (1616) in Mass. Hist. Soc. 

 Coll., 3ds., VI, 108, 1837. 



Pocasset ( ' where a strait widens out ' ; 

 cf. Paugusnet) . A former Wampanoag 

 village about the site of Tiverton, New- 

 port CO., R. I., and Fall River, Mass., 

 ruled in 1675 by the woman chief Westa- 

 more, sister-in-law of King Philip. A 

 part of the site, within the boundaries of 

 Massachusetts, was afterward set aside as 

 a reservation under the name of Free- 

 town or Fall River res., and contained 

 59 mixed-lilood inhabitants in 1764 and 

 37 in 1848. They were sometimes also 

 known as Troy Indians. Consult Du- 

 buque, Fall River Ind. Res., 1907. 

 Pocasicke. — Deed (ca. 1638) quoted by Drake, 

 Bk. Inds., bk. 2, 60, 1848. Pocasset.— Trumbull, 

 Ind. Names Conn., 46, 1881. Pocassett.— Records 

 (1639) inR. I. Col. Rec., I, 88, 1856. Pocassitt.— 

 Sanford (1671), ibid., ii, 427, 1857. Pokeesett.— 

 Deed of 1659 quoted bv Drake, Bk. Inds., bk. 3, 

 3, 1848. Powakasick.— Deed of 1638 in R. I. Col. 

 Rec, I, 47, 1856. Troy Indians.— Rep. of 1865 cited 

 by Dubuque, op. cit. Weetemore Indians. — Church 

 (1716) quoted by Drake, Ind. Wars, 67, 1825. 



Pocasset. A former village near the 

 present Pocasset, Barnstable co., Mass.; 

 perhaps identical with Pispogutt. 

 Pocasset.— Trumbull, Ind. Names Conn., 46, 1881. 

 Pokeset.— Kendall, Trav., ll, 127, 1809. Pokesset.— 

 Freeman (1792) in Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., 1st s., i, 

 231, 1806. 



Pocatamougli. A village in 1608 on the 

 w. bank of Patuxent r. , in St Marys co. , 

 Md.— Smith (1629), Va., i, map, repr. 

 1819. 



Poccon. See Puccoon. 



Pochotita ( Nahuatl : ' where there are 

 silk-cotton trees ' ) . A sacred place of the 

 Huichol, containing a temple; situated 

 5 m. N. of Santa Catarina, in the Sierra 

 de los Huicholes, near the upper waters 

 of the Rio Chapalagana, in Jalisco, 

 Mexico. 



Pochotita.— Lumholtz, Unknown Mex., ii, 138, 

 1902. Raweyapa. — Ibid. (Huichol name). 



Pochougoula (prob. Choctaw: 'pond- 

 lily people'). One of the 9 villages 

 formerly occupied by the Natchez.^ — 

 Iberville (1699) in Margry, D^c, iv, 179, 

 1880. 



Pocoan. See Puccoon. 



Pocol. A former Dieguefio rancheria 

 near San Diego, s. Cal. — Ortega (1775) 

 cited by Bancroft, Hist. Cal., i, 254, 1884. 



Pocomtuc. A tribe formerly living on 

 Deertield and Connecticut rs. , in Franklin 

 CO. , Mass. Their principal village, of the 



same name, was near the present Deer- 

 field, and they were frequently known as 

 Deerfield Indians. They had a fort on 

 Ft Hill in the same vicinity, which was 

 destroyed by the Mohawk after a hard 

 battle in 1666. They were an important 

 tribe, and seem to have ruled over all the 

 other Indians of the Connecticut valley 

 within the limits of Massachusetts, in- 

 cluding those at Agawam, Nonotuc, and 

 Squawkeag. They combined with the 

 Narraganset and Tunxis in the attacks on 

 Uncas, the Mohegan chief. All these 

 joined the hostile Indians under King 

 Philip in 1675, and at the close of the 

 war in the following year fled to Scati- 

 cook, on the Hudson, where some of them 

 remained until about 1754, when they 

 joined the Indians in the French interest 

 at St Francis, Quebec. (j. m. ) 



Pacamteho.— Ft Orange conf. (1664) in N. Y. Doc. 

 Col. Hist., XIII, 379, 1881. Pacamtekock.— Dareth 

 (1664\ ibid., 380. Pacamtekookes. — Albany treaty 

 (1664), ibid., ill, 68, 1853. Pacomtuck.— Pynchon 

 (1663), ibid., XIII, 308,1881. Patrantecooke.— Court- 

 land (1688), ibid., III, 562, 1853. Paucomtuck.— Wil- 

 liams (1648)- in Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., 3d s., i, 178, 

 1825. Paucomtuckqut. — Williams (1648), ibid. 

 Pawcompt. — :Mason (1648), ibid., 4th s., vil, 413, 

 1865. Pecompticks. — Caulkins, Norwich, 45, 1866. 

 Pecomptuk.— Drake, Bk. Ind., bk. 3, 31, 1848. Po- 

 compheake. — Hubbard (1682) in Mass. Hist. Soc. 

 Coll., 2d s., V, 462, 1825. Pocomptuck. — Mason 

 (1659), ibid., 4ths., \^I, 423, 1865. Pocomtakukes.— 

 Gookin (1674), ibid., 1st s., I, 160, 1806. Pocom- 

 tock.— Addam (1653) quoted bv Drake, Bk. Inds., 

 bk. 2, 79, 1848. Pocomtuck.— Mason (ca. 1670) in 

 Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., 2d s., viii, 153, 1819. Pocump- 

 tucks.— Hubbard (1682), ibid., v, 462-3, 1815. 

 Pocumtuck. — Hoyt, Antiq. Res., 76, 1821. Poeom- 

 tucks.— Macauley, N. Y., ii, 162, 1829 (misprint). 

 Pokomtakukes. — Ibid., 189. Pokomtock. — Stanton 

 (1676) in N. Y. Doc. Col. Hist., xiv, 71.5, 1883. 

 Powcomptuok. — Mason (1648) in Mass. Hist. Soc. 

 Coll.,4ths., VII, 413, 186.5. 



Pocon. See Puccoon. 



Pocopassum. An Abnaki village in 1614, 

 in Maine, probably on the coast. — Smith 

 (1616) in Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., 3d s., vi, 

 107, 1837. 



Pocosan, Pocosin, Pocosou. See Poquosin. 



Pocotaligo (Creek: possibly Apdkita- 

 /cu'A'i, 'settlement extending' or 'town situ- 

 ated [there]'). The largest town of the 

 Yamasi before the revoltof 1715; situated 

 in Beaufort CO., S. C, between Combahee 

 and Savannah rs. Pocotaligo is now a 

 township in Beaufort co. (a. s. g. ) 



Pocataligo.— Drake, Ind. Chron., 175, 1836. Poco- 

 taligat. — Humphreys, Acct.,97, 1730. Pocotaligo. — 

 Mills, S. C, 370, 1826.. Poketalico.— Gallatin in 

 Trans. Am. Antiq. Soc, ii, 84, 1836. 



Podunk. Defined by Bartlett (Diet, of 

 Americanisms, 791, 1877) as "a term ap- 

 plied to an imaginary place in burlesque 

 writing or speaking." This word appears 

 as a place name in both Connecticut and 

 Massachusetts, occurring as early as 1687 

 in its present form, and in the forms 

 Poiaecke and Potunke in 1636 and 1671 

 respectively. It is the name of a brook 

 in Connecticut and of a pond in Brook- 

 field, Mass., and the meadows thereabout 

 had also this name. It is derived from 



