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| | Edgartown Massachusetts, 1890 |
 | | The other villages of the town are Katama, near the southeast point of the mainland, and Edgartown village at the north, on the southwest side of its harbor. |
| | Edgartown, whose Indian name was Chappaquiddick, was settled anterior to 1645 by several English families bearing the names of Norton, Pease, Trapp, Vincent, and others, the descendants of whom still remain, A church was organized in July, 1641, under the care of Rev. Thomas Mayhew, governor of Martha's Vineyard. |
| | He, and also his father, the proprieter of the island, were very successful in their religious labors among the Indians; and these remained faithful to the English through King Philip's War. |
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