Nonantum

Mr. Eliot, in company with three others, whose names are not mentioned, having implored the divine blessing on the undertaking, made his first visit to the Indians on the 28th of October, 1646 at a place afterwards called Nonantum; a spot that has the honor of being the first on which

Grandfather's Chair Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

I drove down Soldier's Field/Nonantum/Charlesbank road yesterday and ... sigh.

April 26th, 2007 ceciliatan 2007

The converts were settled in small communities of Praying Indians at Natick, Nonantum, Punkapog, and other locations.

History of American Women Maggiemac 2008

In four years two colonies of Indians were established, one at Nonantum and the other at Concord.

England in America, 1580-1652 Lyon Gardiner Tyler 1894

Coming on to Boston, I led the morning worship in the Eliot Church of Newton, which is named after the apostle of the Indians, the quarter-millennial anniversary of the beginning of whose work at Nonantum has just been celebrated.

Charles Carleton Coffin War Correspondent, Traveller, Author, and Statesman William Elliot Griffis 1885

The place was named "Rejoicing," -- in Indian, a word that soon got corrupted into Nonantum; and, under Mr. Eliot's directions, they divided their grounds with trenches and stone walls, for which he gave them tools to the best of his ability.

Pioneers and Founders or, Recent Workers in the Mission field Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

After this the war did not entirely cease, but the Christian Indians were allowed to creep back to their old settlements at Nonantum, and even at

Pioneers and Founders or, Recent Workers in the Mission field Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

Still he made his Indians at Nonantum hedge and ditch, plant trees, sow cornfields, and saw planks; and some good man in England, whose name he never knew, sent him in 1648 ten pounds for schools among the natives, half of which he gave to a mistress at Cambridge, and half to a master at

Pioneers and Founders or, Recent Workers in the Mission field Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

At Nonantum, indeed, they seem to have emulated the Pharisees themselves in their strictness.

Pioneers and Founders or, Recent Workers in the Mission field Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

The inhabitants of Nonantum removed thither, and the work was put in hand.

Pioneers and Founders or, Recent Workers in the Mission field Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862