Matachee Village

Notes:
Now, about the village of Mattacheese. "Mattacheese" is a term from the Wampanoag dialect of the Algonquin language, meaning "plowed fields". This is not surprising since the Wampanoag were an agricultural tribe; they successfully cultivated corn on their fields and also sold it to those who were less lucky in obtaining food. The Mattacheese area was a division of the Wampanoag federation of villages; the leader of such a division was called "Sagamoh", which meant "Second Chief" (to distinguish him from the "Massi-sowet", the "Great Chief", supreme ruler of all Wampanoags). The leader of an ordinary individual village would have been called "Mugwomp" (Captain or Chief).

When the Pilgrim Fathers landed at Cape Cod in 1620 - the Wampanoag had contact with Europeans since 1524 already, so the Pilgrim Fathers were by no means the first Europeans they encountered -, the leader of Mattacheese was Iyanough. In 1620, the Pilgrims actually skirted the area on their journey to Plymouth, but decided not to enter the harbor due to a snowstorm. In 1621, a young Pilgrim by the name of John Billington wandered back into the forests of Mattacheese, lost his way, and was eventually rescued by a band of Pilgrims aided by Iyanough.

Iyanough was followed by his son, Hyanno, who married his daughter to the Austin Bearse mentioned above. At that time, however, Mattacheese was not part of the Wampanoag federation anymore. The Narragansetts, another Algonquin tribe that was located west of the Wampanoag territory, had taken over the area. However, it is not clear in what year exactly the Cape Cod region changed owners. In 1617, a plague brought by Europeans had devastated what is New England today. Many Wampanoag tribes had been hit hard by the pestilence, but not the Narragansetts who were ruled by their supreme chief Canonicus, who would become an ally of the newly arriving English later and give them land to settle.

In 1639, the village of Mattacheese became the place where the Reverend John Lothrop and his congregation founded their settlement the town of Barnstable.



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Birth

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	Last Name, Given Name(s)	Date and Place	Person ID	Tree
1	Hyanno, John	Abt 1595		I10893	Duane's Ancestors

Marriage

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	Family	Date and Place	Family ID	Tree
1	Bearse / Hyanno	1639		F3598	Duane's Ancestors