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10 Other Spellings:—Papasquash, Pappoosesquaw, Pappasqua, and Poppy-Squash, Popasquash.

.—The name applied to the hill on the eastern part of the town of Bristol. The word appears in the English records about 1668. Some regard it as a corruption of the Indian word Montaup, but there is little authority for such an opinion. Had the Indians used the word Mount Hope or Montaup, it would have been communicated to the whites and used by them in the earliest records. Kickemuit was the main village on Mount Hope Neck, and the Indians of that locality did not give the name Mount Hope to the whites. Other authorities trace Hope to the Norse word Hop, a land-locked bay, and claim that the word was a gift of the Norse to the Indians, and through the Indians to the English. It is more than probable that Mount Hope was named by the same persons who gave the Christian names Prudence, Patience, Hope, and Despair to the islands in Narragansett Bay.

.—(1) The name of a large Indian village on the west bank of the Kickemuit River at the north end of Mount Hope Neck. (2) The name of the river that rises in Swansea and flows south through the eastern part of Warren into Mount Hope Bay. The word Kickemuit means, At the great spring.

Other Spellings:—Kickamuet, Kickomuet, Kekamuett, Keekamuett, Keekamuit, Keekamuit, Kikemuit, Kekemuit, Kecamuet, Kickamuit.

—The same territory as Popanomscutt. The names are used interchangeably in the Sowams records. Peebee was easily and naturally corrupted to Phebe, Pheby, and Thebee in the proprietors and Plymouth records. Peebee was one of Philip's counsellors, and his signature to a quit claim deed by Philip to the white settlers, under date of March 30, 1668, is authority for the spelling, Peebee.

.—The name of New Meadow Neck.

.—The name of the creek that flows into Bullock's Cove at Riverside, west of the burial place of