Papers of the Winthrop Family, Volume 2
1630-06-13
In the morninge the Sagamore of Agawame1 and one of his men came aboard our shippe and stayed with vs all daye.
about 2: in the afternoone, we descryed the Jewell, so we maned out our skiffe, and wafted them in, and they wente as neere the harbour as the tyde and winde would suffer:
Masconomo or Muskonominet. A facsimile of his deed of Agawam (Ipswich) to Winthrop is in T. F. Waters' Ipswich (Ipswich, 1905–1917), 1. 9. As early as the following September, it was ordered in a Court of Assistants, “that a warrant shall presently be sent to Aggawam, to command those that are planted there forthwith to come away.” Records of Massachusetts, I. 76.