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Monday, September 13, 2010

Population

The white population of New England totaled about 80,000 people, including 16,000 men of military age. They lived in 110 towns, of which 64 were in Massachusetts. Many towns had built strong garrison houses for defense, and other had stockades enclosing most of the houses. The region included about 10,500 Indians, including 4000 Narragansetts of western Rhode Island and eastern Connecticut, 2400 Nipmucks of central Massachusetts, and 2400 combined in the Massachusetts and Pawtucket tribes, living about Massachusetts bay and extending northwest to Maine. The Wampanoags and Pokanokets of Plymouth and eastern Rhode Island numbered less than 1000 each. The various tribes, though unconnected in government, spoke dialects of the same language, and had a similar culture.

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