Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1904. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... NOTES CONCERNING SOME OF THE LOCALITIES ON THE INDIAN MAP OF RHODE ISLAND, AND ALSO OF CERTAIN PLACES CONNECTED WITH EARLY INDIAN HISTORY. NOTES CONCERNING INDIAN LOCALITIES. Corruptions in spelling Indian names developed rapidly at the close of the 1jth and the opening of the 18th century. These corruptions are cleverly paralleled by the spelling of English names at the same period. For specimens of the English names the reader is referred to the recently published volume (17th) of the Providence Early Records. Two supposed Indian names appear in a copy of a pretended Indian Deed to Harris, 3 April, 1657 (Coll. R. I. Hist. Soc. 10, 48). These words do not elsewhere appear upon the Records, --Apawtuck, and Achetonsick. The first is a corruption of Pawtuckqut, as Roger Williams first wrote the name. It has also been written Aspotucket (Prov. Early Rec. 15, 71). The second name in this Harris Deed is a corruption of Asapumsick. Ponaganset appears in the later Records as Apehungansett and Apunhungansett. There is an Indian name given in the Prov. Early Rec. (v. 4, p. 3) as Gayonchunachet. There is no Indian word known to Roger Williams beginning with the letter G. Paucahak is a corruption of Pauchasset (Early Rec. 4, 3). Such work makes it often difficult to locate with precision the places which Canonicus and Miantinomi knew. There is an Indian locality named in the Index to the Providence Early Records (v. 15, p. 264) Soansarnt; on page 15 of the same volume the name is given as Soansacut. It is a corruption of the name Moswansacut (Early Records 2, 3), a pond and a stream (Indian map, towns, 8-9). On these same pages, in the same order, is given Paopeacoag; in the body of the book (p. 115) it is given as Pagea Coag. In the index to the Prov. Early Rec. (v. 17) ap..
