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Seekonk River
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Seekonk River
en river county/Providence County state/Rhode Island country/USA, flowing from the Blackstone River to the Providence River.
en https://archive.org/details/collectionsofmas11mass/page/147 Historical Collections of the Indians in New England w:Daniel Gookin MHS Collections w:Massachusetts Historical Society Boston 1756821 1792 1674 series 1, volume 1 147 The Narragansitts were a great people heretofore; and the territory of their Sachem extended about thirty or forty miles from Sekunk river and Narragansitt bay, including Rhode Island and other islands in that bay, being their east and north bounds or border, and so running westerly and southerly unto a place called Wekapage, four or five miles to the eastward of Pawcutuk river, which was reckoned for their south and west border, and the easternmost limits of the Pequots.