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In 1654 members of the Nemasket Tribe, located in the village of Cohannet in current day Bristol County, were among the first Native Americans relocated to Ponkapoag by missionaries. From 1657 to his death around 1670,
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Ponkapoag Plantation was established in 1657 as a 6,000-acre (2,400 ha) town parcel formed from
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by persons who had accepted Christianity. It was established in 1657, during the
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in Bridgewater and Holliston, and the Ponkapoag Tribal Council in Brockton.
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indicating the northern boundary of the Ponkapoag Plantation or settlement
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Dictionary of American-Indian place and proper names in New England
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17th-century Christian Native American settlement in Massachusetts
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native settlement, or "Praying Town" in Massachusetts, after
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Ponkapoag is now contained almost entirely by the town of
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near Dorchester in the summer, in what colonists called
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Historical Collections of the Indians in New England,
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Massachusetts Route 138
/ˈpɒŋkəpɔːɡ/
Native American
praying town
Blue Hills
Massachusetts
colonization
Atlantic
United States
Britain
Massachusett
Neponset River
Neponset Mill
Canton, Massachusetts
a nearby pond
Great Blue Hill
Dorchester
Massachusetts Bay Colony
Christianized
Natick
Quashaamit
Mendon
Milford
Braintree
North Smithfield
Improved Order of Red Men
fraternal order
West Roxbury
Boston, Massachusetts

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