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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 Trade Paperback ISBN: 1-58218-592-1 Hardcover ISBN: 1-58218-593-X eBook ISBN: 1-58218-591-3 All rights reserved, which includes the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form whatsoever except as provided by the U. S. Copyright Law. For information address Digital Scanning, Inc. Digital Scanning and Publishing is a leader in the electronic republication of historical books and documents. We publish many of our titles as eBooks, as well as traditional hardcover and trade paper editions. DSI is committed to bringing many traditional and little known books back to life, retaining the look and feel of the original work. ©2001 DSI Digital Reproduction First DSI Printing: March 2001 Published by DIGITAL SCANNING, INC. Scituate, MA 02066 www.digitalscanning.com 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, vii
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