The history and antiquities of Boston .. . John White. — Settle-ment at Cape Aim. — Conant, Oldham, Lyford. — Capt. Wallaston settles at Braintree. — He soonabandons it. — His Men continue. — Thomas Morton. — Difficulties with him. — He is captui-edand sent out of the Country. 1G21. The people settled at Plymouth, having heard from theSept. 18. Indians accounts of a place called Massachusets,* andthough the natives who inhabited thereabouts had often threatenedthem, they resolved to goe amongst them ; partly to see the coun-trey, partly to make peace with them, and partly to procure theirtmcke
The history and antiquities of Boston .. . John White. — Settle-ment at Cape Aim. — Conant, Oldham, Lyford. — Capt. Wallaston settles at Braintree. — He soonabandons it. — His Men continue. — Thomas Morton. — Difficulties with him. — He is captui-edand sent out of the Country. 1G21. The people settled at Plymouth, having heard from theSept. 18. Indians accounts of a place called Massachusets,* andthough the natives who inhabited thereabouts had often threatenedthem, they resolved to goe amongst them ; partly to see the coun-trey, partly to make peace with them, and partly to procure theirtmcke. Accordingly ten men, including Miles Standish, captain inthe expedition, and probably William Bradford, John Howland, IsaacAllerton, Richard Gardiner, &c. Sq^uanto, or Tisquantum,f was theirguide. JSept. Owing to the tide, 1^- they did not sail fromPlymouth till about mid-night. They had not acorrect idea of the distance ; and, supposing it neererthan it is, thought to be there the next morning betimes: but it proued. * A gentleman who has paid much attentionto the language of the New England Indians,renders Massachusetts into English thus: —Massa, many; Waschoo, mountain; auke,place; hence, Many-mountain-place. Now inthe Massachusett language, ivac/chuut was surelymountain. — See Eliot, Ind. Bible, Matt. , Mark iii. 13, &o. Hence the derivationis very obvious. The Indians inhabiting aboutNeponset river, and so around the bay to Mystic,were very naturally called the people at, about,or among the many mountains, by the Wampa-noags and Narragansets, who had no mountainsin their country. When it was not necessaryto qualify the word mountain, it was simplyivac/chuut; therefore Wachusett, the mountain. f It is a conjecture of long standing, that thatwell known point in Dorchester received itsname from this chief. The rustic legend, thatit was so named because an Indian squaw threwherself from the rocks thei-e, in early times,is not deemed worthy considera
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