The town of Roxbury: its memorable persons and places, its history and antiquities, with numerous illustrations of its old landmarks and noted personages . INDIAN not even an Indian name remaining to mark the locality ofmountain, streamlet, or other natural feature of the chief sachem of the territory, including Boston, Rox-luiiy. and Dorchester, was Chickatabut. who lived on the Xeponset R i v e r . near the Massachu-setts Fields, iii whatis nowQuincy. Thissagamore, who wasthe greatest in thecountry, had. in1031. only fifty orsixty subjects, andmany of these, withthe s
The town of Roxbury: its memorable persons and places, its history and antiquities, with numerous illustrations of its old landmarks and noted personages . INDIAN not even an Indian name remaining to mark the locality ofmountain, streamlet, or other natural feature of the chief sachem of the territory, including Boston, Rox-luiiy. and Dorchester, was Chickatabut. who lived on the Xeponset R i v e r . near the Massachu-setts Fields, iii whatis nowQuincy. Thissagamore, who wasthe greatest in thecountry, had. in1031. only fifty orsixty subjects, andmany of these, withthe sachem himself,died of small-pox INDIAN WIGWAM. •, 1,-> /\r 1 ? in lboo. (>1 himThomas Dudley wrote, This man least favoreth the Eng-lish of any sagamore we are acquainted with, by reasonof the old quarrel between him and those of Plymouth,where he lost seven of his best men. yet he lodged one nightthe last winter at my house in friendly manner. Cut-shamokin. who is said to have been a brother of Chickata-but, and who had been a humble hanger-cm of the Englishfrom their first coming, succeeded for a time to the titularhonor of sachem of Massachusetts, an
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