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Moswetuset Hummock

Norfolk County · dedicated 1930 · Quincy Shore Reservation and Squantum Street, Quincy · location approximate

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Moswetuset Hummock was the seat of Chickatawbut, Sagamore of the Massachusetts Indians; adjoining were their planting grounds. "Massachusetts" means "at the Great (Blue) Hills." With Chickatawbut Governor Winthrop made a treaty which was never broken.

1930 text, presented as a historical document.

Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library

Marker data: Massachusetts Bay Colony Tercentenary Commission, 1930 (Commonwealth of Massachusetts)

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