Note 18 — Massasoit’s Town Sowams in Pokanoket
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The English gave the name of Mt. Hope Neck to the peninsula formed by Sowams River and Narragansett Bay on the west and Kickemuit River and Mt. Hope Bay on the east. It is a tract nine miles in extent, of which one mile is in North Swansea, three miles are in Warren and the remaining five miles, including the hill from which the neck is named are in Bristol.