• Wamesit was a praying town in 1600s Massachusetts Bay Colony situated at the juncture of the Concord River and Merrimack River, in present day downtown...
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    the praying towns of Wamesit and Natick. Agawam Nashua Naumkeag Pawtucket, merged into the Pennacook Pentucket Wachuset Wamesit Weshacum Pocomtuc tribe...
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  • variously referred to in European documents as Pawtucket, Pentucket, Naumkeag, Wamesit, or Mystic Indians, or by the name of their current sachem or sagamore...
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  • there were seven principal praying towns - Magunkaquog, Natick, Punkapog, Wamesit, Hassanamesit, Nashobah, and Okommakamesit. Natick, founded in 1651, was...
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    The Wamesit Canal-Whipple Mill Industrial Complex is a historic mill and canal at 576 Lawrence Street in Lowell, Massachusetts. This industrial area of...
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    the colony. Massachusetts resettled the remaining Wampanoags in Natick, Wamesit, Punkapoag, and Hassanamesit, four of the original 14 praying towns. These...
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    to in European documents as Naumkeag, Pawtucket, Penticut, Mystic, or Wamesit, or by the name of their current sachem or sagamore. Although the term...
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  • inhabited by the Wamesits. The site of Lowell itself (and a portion of Dracut) served as the location of both the Pawtucket and Wamesit capitals, primarily...
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    Ponkapoag (est. 1654), were primarily populated by Massachusett people. Wamesit was established for the Pawtucket, who were part of the Pennacook confederacy...
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    Richardson Light Guard Salem Light Guard Swatara Guards Wallace Guards Wamesit Guard Worcester City Guard With the unification of laws and centralization...
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    Senier. Selections include letters from leader of the early praying town, Wamesit in Massachusetts Samuel Numphow,[clarification needed] Sagamore Kancamagus...
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    "praying town" of Wamesit at the confluence of the Concord and Merrimack Rivers in what is today Lowell, however the population of Wamesit was reckoned at...
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    translations, and Jethro, a Nashaway (northern Nipmuc) who later was preacher at Wamesit. Students would later include Caleb Cheeshahteaumuck and Joel Hiacoomes...
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  • Pawtucket and Pennacook at nearby Wamesit, what is now Chelmsford (and had also been at times the home site of the Wamesit band of the Pawtucket). Wonalancet...
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    by the Native American Wamesit tribe. ("Wamesit" is an Algonquian word meaning: "a cornucopia of plenty for all.") The Wamesit Indians congregated in...
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    Electrical Co. of Lowell; at time of death was treasurer and a director of Wamesit Power Co. of Lowell, Massachusetts; director of Union Land and Grazing...
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    Massachusetts. Other praying Indian towns included: Littleton (Nashoba), Lowell (Wamesit, initially incorporated as part of Chelmsford), Grafton (Hassanamessit)...
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  • Eastern and Central Massachusetts and included Littleton (Nashoba), Lowell (Wamesit, initially incorporated as part of Chelmsford), Grafton (Hassanamessit)...
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    cruelty of bloody and barbarous men. On the morning of March 18, 1676, the Wamesit Indians burned down four of Edward Colburne's buildings, then attacked...
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    Middlesex County, Massachusetts from 1847 to 1854. He was a bank President in Wamesit, Massachusetts from 1852 to 1853. He was president of the Common Council...
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    as a captain with the Wamesit Rifles in 1861, a company organized May 17, 1861, in Lowell, Massachusetts. He left the Wamesit Rifles to join the Navy...
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  • works are located in Tewksbury and another six are located in Lowell. "Wamesit Indian" in Tewksbury, MA (1989) "Water" in Tewksbury, MA (1985) "Homage...
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    fraudulent gold mining operation in North Carolina. He also founded the Wamesit Power Company and the United States Cartridge Company, and was one of several...
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  • Worcester Walnut Bottom Brockton Plymouth Walnut Hill Woburn Middlesex Wamesit Tewksbury Middlesex Wampum Station Wrentham Norfolk Wandville Ashfield...
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    Massachusetts near Route 9. Also called Hobomoc Pond, it was named for Hobomok, a Wamesit Indian evil spirit. The pond and adjacent land are a Superfund site. A...
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  • the Indians, settling with Pennacook and Nipmuc in the Praying town of Wamesit and the Nipmuc and Massachusett in the Praying town of Okommakamesitt (Marlborough...
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    the end of the Civil War. With other local capitalists, he formed the Wamesit Power Company, the United States Bunting Company, and the United States...
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    here it paralleled the L&L until it came to Wamesit. There the two lines met on either side of the Wamesit station house. As they entered Lowell, they...
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  • Railroad begins operating. 1865 United States Bunting Company in business. Wamesit Power Company incorporated. 1867 - St. John's Hospital and Young Men's...
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