Description of settlement of the island in 1659 speaks briefly of the Indians as kind and hospitable people. Gives population figures in 1763 (358) prior to an epidemic in the same year that substantially eradicated that population.
47. Miller, W.J., NOTES CONCERNING THE WAMPANOAG TRIBE OF INDIANS (Providence) 1880.
Concerns the history of English dealings with the tribe; no ethnographic data.
48. Mooney, James, “The Aboriginal Population of America North of Mexico,” SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS, Vol. LXXX, no. 7, (February, 1928).
Gives estimate of population for the area. Presumably this is based on historical sources rather than any formula, although he does not say how the figures were arrived at.
49. Mooney, J., “Handbook of American Indians,” BULLETIN OF THE BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY, XXX, Vols. I and II, 1910, pp. 810 (vol. I), 903-4 (vol. II).
For the Wampanoag there is a brief description concerning matters of history, linguistics, and population. There is also a list of town names.
50. Morton, Thomas, THE NEW ENGLISH CANAAN, (Boston: The Prince Society) 1883.
This work, originally published in 1637, is a basic source for the study of both early colonists and Indians; covers all aspects of Indian culture. The tribe being described is the Massachusett.
51. MOURT’S RELATION (in Young CHRONICLES OF THE PILGRIM FATHERS, etc.)