Pocasset

English Etymology From en alg. Pronunciation en /pəˈkɑs.ət/ Noun s * A (member of a) Native American tribe, Wampanoag#Pocasset_Wampanoag_Tribe_(Pokonoket) the Fall River Wampanoag. en 1862 Orin Fowler History of Fall River: With Notices of Freetown and Tiverton 26 Among the patriots of that period, the name of a native of the Pocasset tribe must be enrolled. While the British army had possession of the island of Rhode Island, in 1777, General Prescott, the chief in command of that army, quartered at a ... en 2018 Pauline Turner Strong Captive Selves, Captivating Others: The Politics And Poetics Of Colonial American Captivity Narratives Routledge 9780429970405 91 Offering refuge to the Pocassets turned out to be disastrous for the Narragansetts. Shortly before the main body of Pocassets arrived among the Narragansetts, on July 15, 1675, the United Colonies had coerced four obscure Narragansetts en 2010 Daniel R. Mandell King Philip's War: Colonial Expansion, Native Resistance, and the End of Indian Sovereignty JHU Press 9780801899485 54 The English considered the Pocassets one of the strongest groups in the area; Nathaniel Saltonstall called Weetamoo “as Potent a Prince as any round about her, and hath as much Corn, Land, and Men at her Command.” Proper noun en village/and/CDP town:pref/Bourne co/Barnstable County s/Massachusetts. TopoZone: Pocasset, Massachusetts en 2003 Andrew T. Eldredge Railroads of Cape Cod and the Islands Arcadia Publishing 9780738511573 83 Railroad Station, Pocasset, Mass. THE POCASSET RAILROAD STATION. This postcard shows the Pocasset station and freight house on the Woods Hole branch . The station was originally called Wenaumet, and the Pocasset station was ... en town co/Grady County s/Oklahoma. A former village in Rhode Island. References Further reading en 2004 William Bright Native American Placenames of the United States University of Oklahoma Press 9780806135984 387 POCASSET (Mass., Barnstable Co.) SNEng. Algonquian, perhaps from <pok- shau> 'it divides' plus <-et> 'place' Anagrams en aceopsst top-cases topcases