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Details are rather interesting if you have been reading about that place and time. Menataquid river name is trending towards the modern spelling. Sagamore Chicatabat's land is noted. Merrymount is stodgily Mount Wollaston. Conehasset, meaning "long rocky place". Heading north, John Sagamore near Meadford, James Sagamore by Sagus. The Merimock going eastward and entering the Atlantic north of Cape Ann. Inland, Mattacomen and the Pennacooks.
This map is titled "The south part of New England, as it planted this yeare, 1639"
Cartographer: William Woods
Map reproduction courtesy of the Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library
From Woods' New England prospect (London : Printed by John Dawson, and are to be sold by John Bellamy at his shop, 1639).
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