#neponset

[unteriors]

N 2nd Street, Neponset, Illinois.

[theirmarks]

Charles Josiah Wompatuck. Charles Josias. Signum.

Massachusett, with ties to Mattakeeset, Neponset and Wessagusset communities, in the areas south of the place today called “Boston, Massachusetts.” Sachem by 1671. Died after 1695. The mark seen here made on a deed for land from so-called Boston, south to present day Roxbury, Massachusetts, and included Deer Island. 

Kin: his father, Josiah Wompatuck, Sachem at Mattakeesett. Grandfather, Chicatabut, Sachem at Wessagusset. Great-uncle, Cutshamequin, Sachem at Neponset.

Translated from the Algonquian, wompatuck means “white deer” in English. 

This document is referred to as a quitclaim deed for the peninsula of Boston, Massachusetts. Signed March 19, 1684. Seen at the Massachusetts Historical Society.

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Here’s the sign for the Neponset Drive-In - some more good font work

(Yale Jole. 1951)

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Bonus: Neponset Drive-In Theatre - that’s some nice font work

(Yale Joel. 1951)

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At church services held at the Neponset Drive-In

(Yale Joel. 1951)

[dennispartridge]

Biography of Thomas P. Currier of Neponset, Illinois

Biography of Thomas P. Currier of Neponset, Illinois

The subject of this biography was born July 6, 1830 in Cornville, Somerset County, Maine. His father, Patten Currier, was born in May 1801, in the same place, and is yet living there. He was a farmer by occupation. The grandfather of our subject was Ephraim Currier, a native of Amesbury, Mass. He died in Cornville, Me. The mother of our subject, Mary Steward, was born in Skowhegan, Me.; she died…

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[dennispartridge]

Biography of Jonathan T. Currier of Neponset, Illinois

Biography of Jonathan T. Currier of Neponset, Illinois

Among our self-made men in Bureau County, who owe their success in life to their energy and perseverance, we place him whose name heads this sketch. He was born July 9, 1823, in Peacham, Caledonia County, Vt. His father Asa Currier, was born April 21, 1891, in the same place. He died March 16, 1868, in Osceola, Stark County., Ill. He came to Stark County on Sunday, August 26, 1838, having come…

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[dennispartridge]

Biography of Nicholas C. Buswell of Neponset, Illinois

Biography of Nicholas C. Buswell of Neponset, Illinois

Col. N. C. Buswell, Neponset, the subject of the following biography, was born December 5, 1831, in Caledonia County, Vt. He is of Scotch descent, a son of James Buswell, a native of Caledonia County, Vt., where he was born in 1793; he died in 1875 six miles south of Neponset, in Stark County, Ill., to which he came in 1837. He came to Peoria County, Ill., in the fall of 1833, and the next year…

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