The Wampanoags in the seventeenth century : $b An ethnohistorical surveyMarten, Catherine
History
The Wampanoags in the seventeenth century : $b An ethnohistorical survey
Marten, Catherine
Indians of North America -- New England -- History -- 17th century; Wampanoag Indians
[317] Champlain in Howe, pp. 112, 133; Rowlandson, pp. 46-47, has
wives occupying separate households, where there are multiple wives.
[318] Champlain in Howe, pp. 172-73.
[319] Ibid., p. 112.
[320] Wood, p. 106.
[321] Williams, pp. 74-75.
[322] When Plimoth Plantation was established there were no Indians
settlements in its immediate neighborhood. The former village of
Patuxet, once located on the site of Plymouth and said to have had
a population of two thousand, was wiped out by the plague prior to
the settlement of Europeans. Altham, p. 29, reports that the nearest
Indian settlement to Plymouth was called Manomet and was fourteen
miles away. This is probably identical with the town of Mannamit,
described by Chase as being in Sandwich, near the bottom of Buzzard’s
Bay; H. E. Chase, “Notes on the Wampanoag Indians,” SMITHSONIAN
ANNUAL REPORT, 1883 (Washington, 1885), p. 888.
[323] If, as reports indicate, twelve to twenty men went out from
each summer village in the fall to their hunting camps, and it may
be assumed that these represent most of all the able-bodied adult
male population, then we would seem to be dealing with summer village
populations whose total numbers would equal in size the population of
a winter longhouse. It might further be surmised that the personnel
of each are identical; in other words, the same group of 40 to 50
people may have formed a camping-together unit for most of the year,
living together in the same longhouse in winter and camping near each
other as a summer village.
[324] Wood, pp. 100-101.
[325] “... a bundle of Indian candles or splints of the pitch tree”;
Bushnell, p. 675. Willoughby, p. 294.
[326] Brereton in Howe, pp. 63-64; John Josselyn, “An account of
Two Voyages to New England,” Massachusetts Historical Society
COLLECTIONS, Ser. 3, III, (Boston, 1883), p. 257; Morton, p. 172;
Williams, p. 100.
[327] Williams, pp. 57, 87.
[328] Winslow, p. 367.
[329] Gookin, p. 153.
[330] Williams, p. 153, estimates the value of each gift as about
“... eighteen pence, two Shillings, or thereabouts....”
[331] Ibid.; Rowlandson, p. 50.
[332] Chase, p. 900; Morton, pp. 141, 158-59; Williams, pp. 174-75.
[333] Morton, pp. 158-59; Williams, pp. 174-75.
[334] Chase, p. 900.
[335] Williams, pp. 174-75.
[336] Morton, p. 141.
[337] Ibid., pp. 158-59.
[338] Williams, p. 173; Wood, p. 69.
[339] Willoughby, p. 266.
[340] Ibid., pp. 266-67.
[341] Bradford, II, pp. 43-44.
[342] Willoughby, pp. 270-71.
[343] Morton, p. 157.
[344] Willoughby, p. 270.
[345] Morton, p. 157.
[346] Willoughby, p. 267.
[347] Gookin, p. 151; Williams, pp. 66, 75; Winslow, p. 363.
[348] Winslow, p. 363; Williams, p. 66.
[349] Winslow, p. 363; Wood, p. 105.
[350] Wood, p. 105.
[351] Williams, p. 66.
[352] Winslow, p. 364.
[353] Ibid., p. 363; Willoughby, p. 132.
[354] Vaughan, pp. 49-50.
[355] Gookin, p. 151; Williams, pp. 32, 132; Williams, p. 75.
[356] Williams, p. 123.
[357] Ibid.
[358] Willoughby, p. 132.
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