Seekonk

English Etymology Possibly from an en alg term for skunk; compare abe segôgw.Seekonk 429 Alternatively, from en alg for "black goose";25 Seekonk Roger Williams gives "Súcki" for "black" and "Hònck" for "goose".52, 90, 155 The name is attested in various spellings since the 1600s, but for over a century the town was officially part of en Rehoboth. The current town of Seekonk was only incorporated in 1812. Proper noun en town county/Bristol County state/Massachusetts c/US. TopoZone: Seekonk, Massachusetts en Of Plimoth Plantation, Book II 1639–1640 William Bradford (governor) William Bradford 1856 372 https://archive.org/details/s4collections03massuoft/page/372 MHS Collections Boston 1756821 w:Massachusetts Historical Society series 4, volume 3 diverce tounships established and setled in severall quarters of ye govermente, as Plimoth, Duxberie, Sityate, Tanton, Sandwich, Yarmouth, Barnstable, Marchfeeld, and not longe after, Seacunke (called afterward, at ye desire of ye inhabitants, Rehoboth) and Nawsett en w:Roger Williams A Letter from Roger Williams to Major Mason 1670 https://archive.org/details/collectionsofmas11mass/page/276 MHS Collections w:Massachusetts Historical Society Boston 1756821 1792 series 1, volume 1 276 I first pitch't and begun to build and plant at Secunk, now Rehoboth, but I received a letter from my antient friend Mr. Winslow, then Governour of Plymmouth, professing his oune and others love and respect to me, yet lovingly advising me, since I was fallen into the edge of their bounds and they were loth to displease the Bay, to remove but to the other side of the water, and then he said I had the country free before me, and might be as free as themselves, and wee should be loving neighbour's togeather. en Letter of the Commissioners of the United Colonies of New-England respecting Mount Hope 1679 https://archive.org/details/collectionsmass07unkngoog/page/n231 MHS Collections w:Massachusetts Historical Society Boston 1756821 1798 series 1, volume 5 227 In that the lands are indubitably within the limits and bounds of his majesty's colony of New-Plymouth, contained within the express limits of his royal charter, and therein granted, and are within the bounds of an English town of that colony, planted by them near seventy years since, called Secunke and Swansey. en Stephen Hopkins (politician) Stephen Hopkins (ascribed) Account of Providence, R.I. 1765 https://archive.org/details/s2collections07massuoft/page/n483 MHS Collections w:Massachusetts Historical Society Boston 1756821 1822 series 2, volume 9 169 Without any guide but heaven they wandered southward, and came to a place called Seaconk; and thinking they were now far enough removed from their offended brethren, designed to sit down there; But it seems, the fame of their heretical opinions had reached to Plymouth, and thereupon an officer was sent from thence to order them to depart out of that colony also. en https://www.google.com/books?id=r_9GAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA568 The Laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts 5 Boston Adams, Rhoades, & Co. 29210160 1812 568 An Act to establish the Town of Seekonk Be it enacted That the westerly part of Rehoboth in the county of Bristol, as described within the following bounds, with the inhabitants thereon, be, and they are hereby incorporated into a separate town, by the name of Seekonk en Seekonk River. en https://www.google.com/books?id=MEg8AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA292 The Fisheries and Fishery Industries of the United States The Fisheries of Rhode Island George Brown Goode 852254385 section 2, part 4 A. Howard Clark U.S. Government Printing Office 1887 292 The Seekonk has always been a favorite home of the oyster, and year by year the river contributes its quota to the tongers, through a space from the Wicksbury pier to nearly 5 miles above. en https://www.google.com/books?id=iHt_CQAAQBAJ&pg=PT13 A History of the Providence River Robert A. Geake Arcadia Publishing The History Press Chapter 1: The Founding of Providence w:Charleston, SC 9781614238812 2013 Williams and a handful of men set out across the Seekonk to a wide cove downriver on the western bank, where they were greeted by a band of Narragansett who shouted from a rocky outcrop on the hill, “What cheer, Netop?” a phrase that was to become iconic in Rhode Island lore. Derived terms en Seekonk River References