The history and antiquities of Boston .. . ; and with these theyinclosed a ring some forty or fiftyfoote ouer; a trench, breast high,was digged on each side ; one waythere was to goe into it with a the midst of this pallizado stoodthe frame of an house, wherein, beingdead, he lay buryed. About a mile from this palisadoedfortification, they found another ofsimilar structure. This is the placewhere the great sachem, Nanepashemet, was killed. None had livedin it since the time of his death, which, from some circumstances, issupposed to have been in 1619. Here the Plymouth men rested a w
The history and antiquities of Boston .. . ; and with these theyinclosed a ring some forty or fiftyfoote ouer; a trench, breast high,was digged on each side ; one waythere was to goe into it with a the midst of this pallizado stoodthe frame of an house, wherein, beingdead, he lay buryed. About a mile from this palisadoedfortification, they found another ofsimilar structure. This is the placewhere the great sachem, Nanepashemet, was killed. None had livedin it since the time of his death, which, from some circumstances, issupposed to have been in 1619. Here the Plymouth men rested a while, having sent two Indians tosee if they could find any inhabitants ; and, if they could, to invite themto a conference. At the distance of about a mile from the place wherethe English were, the two Indians found the women of the place to-gether, with their corne on heapes, whither they had fled, as wassupposed, from fear of the English ; and the more, because in dinersplaces they had newly pulled down their houses, and for hast in one. * Here is certainly evidence enough that theywere not at Shawmut, but evidence enoughthat they were on the south side of the bay,somewhere. Would going from Copps Hill to(Jharlestown be crossing the bay ? and elicit-ing in connection observations about its extentand the great number of islands in it ? Theymight well say, as they do, againe we crossudthe Bay, for they had already crossed onebay, or what to strangers could appear no oth- er than a bay, from point Alderton to Squan-tum. f In Roger Williams Key, Nanepaushat istranslated The moon God. J Situated in the vicinity of Mystic Pond, socalled, in Medford. MS. of Mr. Harris, visupra. The reasoning employed by the authorin support of his location of Nanepashemetsfort, fov whia: I have not room, is quite con-clusive 46 HISTORY OF BOSTON. [1621. place had left some of their corne couered with a mat, and nobodywith it. These women discovered much alarm at first, but their fears weresoon overc
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