| Show PLACE NAMES some odd and curious names of places in massachusetts in the some good old colonial names are preserved like jin gle jorry hill and Shilly shally brook spot pond was named by governor winthrop who discovered it in the winter because 0 the many rooks that showed through the ice and spotted tho em face powderhorn Powder horn hill in chelsea is eadd to have been bought from the indians for a horsfal of powder the fact of misfortune to divers nn known persons whether trivial or great does not appear finds a record in bad luck brook and swamp in Ko hoboth bad luck mountain in granville and bad luck pond in douglas The remay association between turncoat burncoat Burn coat brook and pond in leicester and spencer and river likewise in ter county drinkwater river is a felicitous name for a stream of good water it la in hanover and possibly there may have seen a family of boyhood bo strong water brook bury has quito different associations pond in westford ford suggests a long and baffled quest for the spot through the wilderness in the olden days one of the least euphonious of names issing river in essex and mid counties it is worthy a place among such english names as wormwood scrubs a park in london The legend about the names of tha group of islands on the couth coast presents an instance of how fancied resemblances give rise to stories it is related that these islands once belonged to a man with four daughters to nancy the oldest the father gave the first choice and the fact that santook Nan took it is recorded in the namo of nantucket the island bhe selected nantucket Nah of course is in reality an indian name martha vineyard and tho elizabeth islands went to martha and elizabeth respectively while for the fourth daughter has been loat to memory there was nothing left but the most remote and undesirable of the group which no mans land because its owner was a woman the elizabeth islands in fact were named for queen elizabeth by bartholomew gosnold their discoverer whose namo has been i given to tho town that comprises them boston transcript |
