Genealogical notes of Barnstable families - citizen hylbom blog

GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES. 89
desire to perpetuate them everywhere prevails. Nearly all the
States which have recently been admitted into the Union, many of
our ships of war, our gun-boats, our monitors, and our steamships,
have had Indian names bestowed on them.
I have only one more plea to enter for the old name. To the
Indian, We-qua-quett was a land of shady groves—of sweet
waters—of pleasant streams—of manly sports ; our fathers were
well pleased with the name, they adopted it, their children cherished'
it, and their descendants have associated with it the memory
of the olden time, of those good and true men who drank its
sweet waters, and now rest beneath the green sod of its shady
groves. The Indian was their brother. They knelt with him at
the same altar, they prayed to the same God, and believed him to
be a joint heir with them of a common salvation. They called
"Old Humphrey," the Indian teacher at We-qua-quet, their
brother, they extended to him while living the right hand of fellowship,
and they wept at his grave because a loved one of their
Israel had departed. Their affections were not circumscribed by
race or color—the good and the true, he that strove to walk in the
footsteps of the Master, they' called brother.