HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION. 



Newport (1644), and the Second Newport (1656); — a 

 society of Friends, which had been formed at Newport 

 in 1656-7; and a church of Seventh-day Baptists, formed 

 at Newport in December, 1671. 



We have seen that the estimated number of Indians on 

 the territory of New England at this time, was between 

 ten and eleven thousand. Of these, about four thousand 

 were then reckoned as " Praying Indians," and seem to 

 have been won to some comprehension and practice of 

 Christianity. According to Gookin, whose " Historical 

 Collections of the Indians in New-England" bears date 

 7th Dec, 1674,* just before the breaking-out of Philip's 

 War, these were, in large part, distributed as follows, viz: — 



Nonantum (Natick) .... 

 Punkapoag (Stoughton) . . . 

 Hassanamcsitt (Grafton) . . 

 Oko m m a ka ?ncsit ( M a r 1 b o ro ugh ) 



Wamesit (Tewksbury) . . . 

 Nashobah (Littleton) .... 

 Magunhaquog (Hopkinton) 

 Manchage (Oxford) .... 

 Chabanakongkomun (Dudley) . 

 Maancxit (N.E. Woodstock) . 

 Quantisset (S.E. Woodstock) . 



Wabquisset (S.W. Woodstock) 

 Packachoog (Worcester) . . . 



Waeuntug (Uxbridge) . . . 

 Meeshaivn and Punonakanit (Tru 



ro and Wellfleet) .... 

 Potanumaquut and Naivsett (East 

 ham) 



145 



60 I 



60 I 



5° 



75 



50 



55 



60 



45 

 100 

 100 

 150 

 100 



50 



72 

 44 I 



Manamoyik (Chatham) .... 71 



Sawkattukett (Harwich), Nob- 

 squassitt, Mattakees, and Wee- 

 quakut (Yarmouth and Barnsta- 

 ble) 122 



Satnit, Pa-ivpocsit, Coatuit, Mask- 

 pee, and Wakoquct (Mashpee) . 95 



Codtanmut, AsMmuit, Weesquobs 

 (Mashpee and Sandwich) . . 22 



Pispogutt, Waxvayantik, and So- 

 kones (Wareham and Falmouth) 36 



Cotuhtikut, Assootvamsoo (Mid- 

 dleborough) 35 



Kitteaumut (Sandwich) .... 40 



Nope (Martha's Vineyard) and 



Chappaquiddick 1500 



Nantucket 300 



Mass. Hist. Coll. i : 141-226. 



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