Massachuseuck

The Massachuseuck were an Indigenous people of Massachusetts Bay, living in autonomous villages led by sachems along the Charles and Neponset rivers. They grew maize, beans and squash and fished the coast.

Epidemics devastated the coastal communities around 1619, and English settlers took much of their land. During John Eliot's mission, many Massachuseuck joined Christian communities at Natick and Ponkapoag; Eliot's Massachusett-language Bible appeared in 1663.