Part II, Genealogical Register of Plymouth Families,

Wm. T. Davis, Boston, copyright 1883

_Plymouth Memories of an Octogenarian_ Wm. T. Davis, Plymouth, 1906, 542 pages

_The Arthur Lord Collection_, ed. L. D. Geller Pilgrim Society, Plymouth, 1971

_A Guide to New England’s Landscape_ Neil Jorgensen, 1971, Barre Publishing Co.

_Mourt’s Relation_, 1622 Dwight B. Heath, editor, Corinth Books, 1963

_The Wampanoags in the Seventeenth Century_ An Ethnohistorical Survey Catherine Marten, Plimoth Plantation Publication #2, Dec. 1970

_Plymouth and the Common Law, 1620-1775_ A Legal History by D. C. Parnes, Pilgrim Society, 1971

_Husbandmen of Plymouth_ Darrett B. Rutman, Beacon Press, Second ed., 1968

_The Mayflower and Pilgrim Story_ Chapters from Rotherhithe and Southwark Published by the Council of the London Borough of Southwark, 1970

_Sixteenth Century North America_ Carl Otwin Sauer, University of California Press, 1971

_A Geologist’s View of Cape Cod_ Arthur H. Strahler Natural History Press, New York, 1966

Opening Quotation from

_Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind_, by Shunryu Suzuki, page 29 Weatherhill, New York and Tokyo, Third Printing, 1971

AFTER KAMESIT

NOTES

INTRODUCTION

[1] Page 1--I have used as a reference for wildflowers _A Field Guide to Wildflowers_ by Roger Tory Peterson, Houghton, Mifflin, Boston, 1968.

[2] Page 1--_Indian Place Names of New England_, compiled by John C. Haden, New York, Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, 1962, p. 73, refers to Kamesset Point, Dukes County, Massachusetts, Wampanoag, “at the place of great fish,” also given as “pine place.”

Two octogenarians in Plymouth were familiar with the word. One from Duxbury thought it meant “west wind.” There was a club on Lord’s Point on South Pond known as the Kamesit Club during the 1890’s.

John Eliot, the apostle to the Indians, does not have the name in his dictionary.