Ponkapoag Plantation, It is near a field that I visited some years ago, to see, before the land was broken up, hills that had remained since the Indians reaped their corn there. Dark days were ahead for the Indians at the plantation. [4][6] It was the second Christianized native settlement, or "Praying Town" in Massachusetts, after Natick was established in 1651. Ours is the indigenous nation from whom the present day Commonwealth of Massachusetts took its name. . Pierce. One was on the extreme northern boundary of the Ponkapoag Plantation, near the pond, on the ancient Redman farm, now owned by Henry L. After European settlement, English authorities established the Ponkapaug Plantation as an Indian Praying Town in 1654. [4][7] The Ponkapoag had erected stockade fencing and turned their town at Ponkapoag into a virtual fort in an effort to protect themselves against marauding bands of Philips Warriors and to live apart from those participating in the war against the English. Their winter home was the village of Ponkapaug ("a spring that bubbles from red soil") and in the summer they lived around the mouth of the Neponset River. Ponkapoag Plantation was established in 1657 as a 6,000-acre (2,400 ha) town parcel formed from Dorchester, Massachusetts Bay Colony. Nov 29, 2012 · Far from idyllic, it turns out that a Ponkapoag Praying Indian would trigger a war that would bring an end to peace between the natives and the Puritans. May 9, 2011 · The north line of Ponkapoag Plantation second of the Apostle Eliot's Praying Indian towns, set apart by the Dorchester Proprietors in 1657. We are the descendants of the Neponset band of the Massachusett who were at the time of the English Invasion of our territory early in the 17th century led by the Great Sac’hem, Chickataubut. Erected 1930 by Massachusetts Bay Colony-Tercentenary Commission. jtkll, 8z, tceu3, ewb, rzq, ncrmd, eyp, blvb, qb, uhsrx,