THE MAHICAN EXTENDED OVER THE MAJORITY OF BERKSHIRE COUNTY. MASSACHUSETTS MEANS AT THE RANGE OF HILLS. OR THE HILL OF MILTON. THE MASSACHUSETTS BELONGED TO ALGONQUIAN STOCK. THEIR TONGUE BEING AN N-DIALECT AND FORMED ONE GROUP WITH MARRAGANSET, MAUSET, NIANTIC AND OTHER INDIANS.
THEY LIVED IN MASSACHUSETTS BAY BY SALEM AND BROCKTON. IN 1881 THEY HAD THREE KINGDOMS AND SOME PEOPLE THINK THEY HAD SIX MAIN DIVISIONS:
1)BAND OF CHUCKATAURUT, 2) BAND OF NENEPASHEMAT, 3) BAND OF NANEPASHEMAT. 4) BAND OF CATO, 5) BAND OF NAHATON, 6) BAND OF CUTSHAMKIN. THEY HAD ABOUT 23 VILLAGES. THEY WERE VISITED BY JOHN SMITH IN 1614. BY 1617 THEY WERE MUCH REDUCED BY A DISEASES AND BY WARS WITH THEIR NEIGHBORS. ONE PURITAN SETTLED HERE BY 1629 AND THEY BEGAN MISSION WORK. THE CONVERTS WERE GATHERED INTO SEPARATE VILLAGES.
THE NUMBER OF MASSACHUSETTS IS ESTABLISHED IN 1928 AS 3000 IN 1600. IN 1631 IT WAS REDUCED TO ABOUT 500 AND SOON BELOW THAT BY SMALLPOX. THE MASSACHUSETS ARE KNOWN AS A FAMOUS TRIBE WHO GAVE THEIR NAME TO MASSACHUSETTS BAY.
THEY ARE NOTED AS THE TRIBE IN WHICH THE FAMOUS APOSTLE TO THE INDIANS, JOHN ELLIOT, LABORED THROUGH WHOM A LARGE PART OF WHOM WERE GATHERED INTO VILLAGES OF PRAYING INDIANS. SOME OF THEIR LANGUAGE HAS BEEN PRESERVED TODAY. A MASSACHUSET SET MARRIAGE CHIEF MARRIED THREE PASSACONAWAY LADIES. HE WAS CHIEF OF PENNACOOK.
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