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Samuell Gorton

Note 47 — V SHAWOMET BECOMES WARWICK

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These were the names given the contesting parties of white men by the Indians. The latter, Roger Williams says, means “coat wearers,” which leads Dr. Fiske to query whether the Gortonists habitually went in their shirt sleeves!

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