When increasing numbers of Massachusetts Bay officers began successfully using Praying Indians as scouts in the war, the sentiment of the white settlers turned. For much of the war, the English colonists rounded up the Praying Indians and sent them to Deer Island. Around this time, fourteen armed men of Chelmsford went to the outlying camp at Wameset (near Forge Pond) and opened fire on the unsuspecting Nashoba, wounding five women and children, and killing outright a boy twelve years old, the only son of John Tahattawan. A short while later, some Concord residents who were hostile to the Nashoba solicited some militia to remove them to Deer Island. Īt the time of King Philip's War between the English and Native Americans, the General Court ordered the Indians at Nashoba to be interned in Concord. The inhabitants are about ten families, and consequently about fifty souls. It lieth from Boston about twenty-five miles west north west. This village is situated, in a manner, in the centre, between Chelmsford, Lancaster, Groton and Concord. Nashobah is the sixth praying Indian town. Daniel Gookin, in his Historical Collections of the Indians in New England, (1674) chapter vii. The term "Praying Indian" referred to Native Americans who had been converted to Christianity. It was called Nashoba Plantation, on the land between Lake Nagog and Fort Pond. Littleton was the site of the sixth Praying Indian village established by John Eliot in 1645 consisting of mainly Native Americans of the Nipmuc and Pennacook tribes. įor geographic and demographic information on the neighborhood of Littleton Common, please see the article Littleton Common, Massachusetts. The population was 10,141 at the 2020 census. Littleton (historically Nipmuc: Nashoba) is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States.
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