Natick
Natick was one of several praying villages established in the 1660s by the English missionary John Eliot in Nipmuc homelands. It was originally called Nonantum “the place of rejoicing,” and lies in the present-day town of Newton, Massachusetts. English settlers in nearby Dedham, who had a title to the same land, demanded that the governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony give them land elsewhere. In 1665, the Dedham settlers were given a grant of Pocumtuck land in present-day Deerfield, in exchanged for the land they lost to the Christian Nipmuc village of Natick.