Nipmuck

Last year, 19 tribes sent representatives, including the Miwok and Maidu, from central California; the Pawnee, from Kansas and Nebraska; the Powhatan, from Virginia; and the Nipmuck, from Massachusetts.

Within what is now Grafton stood the Nipmuck Indian village of Hassanamesit.

A notorious Nipmuck chief, Monoco, called by the English One-eyed John, led this expedition.

In this fortress, within the territorial limits of the Nipmuck Indians, he also assembled a feeble train of women and children, the fragments of his slaughtered families.

The Nipmuck tribe, then quite powerful, occupied the region now included in the southeast corner of Worcester county.