[14] _Page 35, note 2._ Johnson, p. 56. Josselyn, in his _New England’s Rarities Discovered_, speaks with respect of “Squashes, but more truly squontersquashes; a kind of mellon, or rather gourd; ... some of these are green; some yellow; some longish like a gourd; others round, like an apple: all of them pleasant food, boyled and buttered, and seasoned with spice. But the yellow squash—called an apple-squash (because like an apple) and about the bigness of a pome-water is the best kind.” Wood, in his _New England Prospect_, says: “In summer, when their corn is spent, isquotersquashes is their best bread, a fruit much like a pumpion.” [15] _Page 36, note 1._ Nashawtuck, a small and shapely hill between the Musketaquid and the Assabet streams, at their point of union, was a pleasant and convenient headquarters for a sagamore of a race whose best roadway for travel and transportation was a deep, quiet stream, the fish of which they ate, and also used for manure for their cornfields along the bluffs. Indian graves have been found on this hill. [16] _Page 36, note 2._ Josselyn’s _Voyages to New England_, 1638. [17] _Page 36, note 3._ Hutchinson’s _History of Massachusetts_, vol. i., chap. 6. [18] _Page 36, note 4._ Thomas Morton, _New England Canaan_, p. 47. [19] _Page 37, note 1._ Shattuck, p. 6. The old Middlesex Hotel, which stood during the greater part of the nineteenth century on the southwest side of the Common, opposite the court- and town-houses, had fallen into decay in 1900, and was bought and taken down by the town as an improvement to the public square to commemorate the one hundred and twenty-fifth anniversary of Concord Fight. It is probable that Jethro’s Oak, under which the treaty was made, stood a little nearer the house of Rev. Peter Bulkeley, the site of which, about one hundred paces distant on the Lowell road, is now marked by a stone and bronze tablet. [20] _Page 38, note 1._ Depositions taken in 1684, and copied in the first volume of the Town Records. [21] _Page 39, note 1._ Johnson’s _Wonder-Working Providence_. [22] _Page 39, note 2._ _New England’s Plantation._ [23] _Page 39, note 3._ E. W.’s Letter in Mourt, 1621. [24] _Page 40, note 1._ Peter Bulkeley’s _Gospel Covenant_; preached at Concord in New England. 2d edition, London, 1651, p. 432. [25] _Page 41, note 1._ See petition in Shattuck’s _History_, p. 14. [26] _Page 41, note 2._ Shattuck, p. 14. This was the meadow and upland on the Lowell road, one mile north of Concord, just beyond the river. On the farm stands the unpainted “lean-to” house, now owned by the daughters of the late Edmund Hosmer. [27] _Page 42, note 1._ Concord Town Records. [28] _Page 43, note 1._ Bancroft, _History of the United States_, vol. i., p. 389. [29] _Page 44, note 1._ Savage’s _Winthrop_, vol. i., p. 114. [30] _Page 44, note 2._ Colony Records, vol. i. [31] _Page 44, note 3._ See Hutchinson’s _Collection_, p. 287.