Massasoit of the Wampanoags

290 Pages·2001·1.286 MB·English

by  Alvin G. Weeks

MASSASOIT OF THE WAMPANOAGS

MASSASOIT
O F T H E W A M P A N O A G S
WITH A BRIEF COMMENTARY ON INDIAN
CHARACTER; AND SKETCHES OF OTHER
GREAT CHIEFS, TRIBES AND NATIONS; ALSO
A CHAPTER ON SAMOSET, SQUANTO AND
HOBAMOCK, THREE EARLY NATIVE
FRIENDS OF THE PLYMOUTH COLONISTS
BY
ALVIN G. WEEKS
PAST GREAT SACHEM OF THE IMPROVED ORDER OF RED MEN
OF MASSACHUSETTS AND PRESIDENT OF THE MASSASOIT
MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION
PRIVATELY PRINTED
1920

MASSASOIT
OF THE WAMPANOAGS
By Alvin G. Weeks
As Published in 1919
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TO THE
MEMORY OF MASSASOIT
GREAT SACHEM OF THE WAMPANOAG INDIANS, 1620-1661,
WHO, BY HIS FRIENDLY DISPOSITION TOWARDS THE
WHITES, AND HIS FAITHFUL OBSERVANCE OF HIS TREATY
OBLIGATIONS TO THEM, HAS EARNED THE UNDYING
GRATITUDE OF HUMANITY, THIS WORK IS RESPECTFULLY
DEDICATED.

FOREWORD
I
N the summer of 1910, while serving as
Great Sachem of the Improved Order of Red
Men of Massachusetts, I had occasion to accom-
pany my Deputy Great Sachem for the Plymouth
District and a party of Great Chiefs and mem-
bers of the order with their families and friends,
on a visitation to the tribe located in that old his-
toric town. Our official duties performed, we
visited the many places of particular interest,
the spots especially consecrated to Freedom by
the restless energy of the men of three centuries
ago.
We saw the beautiful memorial erected to the
Pilgrims, and the memorable rock which their
feet first pressed on December 21, 1620; we
climbed the hill to view the spot where so many
of them were laid at rest during their first winter
of hardship and suffering, and where later the
ashes of many more were mingled with the dust;
we stood on the summit of Cole’s Hill from
which we looked out upon the harbor where the
Mayflower once lay at anchor; we saw the relics
of bygone days, exhibited in the Memorial Hall,
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