According to Warren Town Historian Virginia Baker in 1904, Roger Williams was sheltered by the Pokanoket Massasoit Ousamequin for 14 weeks in the winter of 1636 after Williams was banished from Salem, MA, and walked the sixty miles to Sowams, the Massasoit’s home in what today is Warren, RI. Following his recovery from an illness, […]
In 1894, Virginia Baker’s published “Glimpses of Ancient Sowams,” which contained the following: In i860, a company of Indians, under the leadership of Father Beeson, the “Indian’s Friend,” made a tour of the United States giving a series of entertainments in the principal cities and towns. Among the towns visited was Warren, RI, where […]
The ancient place names of the Pokanoket people have been changed or eliminated by colonial settlers starting in the 17th century. In the map at the left are some of those ancient names over the places they once designated. In other cases, some of the original names have been retained to name businesses or street […]