Shawmut, according to 19th-century scholarship, is a term derived from the Algonquian word Mashauwomuk referring to the region of present-day Boston, Massachusetts.University Press, 1886. It appears in a number of present-day placenames.

Origin of the word

It appears in print very early in the history of New England; records from 1630 note that William Blaxton

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