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100	1		_aDaley, Carroll F., _d1906-1994
245	1	0	_aAfter Kamesit
264		1	_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2025
300			_a1 online resource : _bmultiple file formats
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337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aRelease date is 2025-11-14
508			_aSteve Mattern and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net
520			_a"After Kamesit" by Carroll F. Daley is a historical chronicle written in the late 20th century. It traces the landscape, Indigenous presence, colonial settlement, and multigenerational ownership around South and Boot Ponds in Plymouth, Massachusetts, centering on a 1769 homestead and the Burgess family who lived there for more than a century and a half. Blending local history, genealogy, and personal observation, it evokes a strong “spirit of place” through deeds, maps, anecdotes, and photographs. The opening of the work frames time and memory (with a Shunryu Suzuki epigraph), then introduces “Kamesit,” the Wampanoag name for the South Pond region, and the author’s aim to recount what came after the Native era—people, activities, and the old house on Boot Pond. It describes the glacially formed terrain, ponds, pines, and abundant wildflowers; sketches Wampanoag lifeways and early contact (including Verrazzano’s account); and explains how Plymouth’s common lands became “Great Lots,” situating Great South and Boot Ponds within that scheme and noting early roads. A concise chain of ownership follows: Churchills, neighboring Cotton lands, Henry Richmond (who built the homestead), Nathaniel Clark, and Samuel Wright, before the Burgesses acquire it in 1801. The narrative then broadens to Burgess genealogy and John Burgess’s large household, illustrated by his will and an inventory that reveal daily labor, fuel needs, and modest means, before surveying the surrounding community—schools, mills, fisheries and whaling, stage and rail, and local anti-slavery activity (including Jonathan Walker). Finally, it introduces Phineas and Charlotte Burgess, their children, the famed Boot Pond picnics, and the rhythms of mid‑19th‑century farm life, setting the stage for more intimate family portraits to come. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534			_pOriginally published: _cKingston, Mass.: Pilgrim Publishers, 1974
653			_aPlymouth (Mass.) -- History
653			_aPlymouth (Mass.) -- Description and travel
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77234
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