Chickatawbut was the sachem

Sachem

A sachem[p] or sagamore is a paramount chief among the Algonquians or other northeast American tribes. The two words are anglicizations of cognate terms from different Eastern Algonquian languages...

, or leader, of a large group of indigenous people of what is now eastern Massachusetts

Massachusetts

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, United States

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 known as the Massachusett

Massachusett

The Massachusett are a tribe of Native Americans who lived in areas surrounding Massachusetts Bay in what is now the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, in particular present-day Greater Boston; they spoke the Massachusett language...

 tribe, during the initial period of English

English people

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 settlement in the region in the early seventeenth century. Chickatawbut maintained a base at a small hill on Quincy Bay

Quincy Bay

Quincy Bay is the largest of the three small bays of southern Boston Harbor, part of Massachusetts Bay and forming much of the shoreline of the city of Quincy, Massachusetts. Locally in the Wollaston neighborhood of Quincy it is known as Wollaston Bay...

 in Boston Harbor

Boston Harbor

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 known as Moswetuset Hummock

Moswetuset Hummock

Moswetuset Hummock is a wooded historic place in Quincy, Massachusetts. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.The site is located at the northern end of Wollaston Beach along Quincy Bay on East Squantum Street near the junction with Quincy Shore Drive...

. He was met there by Plymouth Colony

Plymouth Colony

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 commander Myles Standish

Myles Standish

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 and Squanto

Squanto

Tisquantum was a Patuxet. He was the Native American who assisted the Pilgrims after their first winter in the New World and was integral to their survival. The Patuxet tribe was a tributary of the Wampanoag Confederacy.-Biography:Squanto's exact date of birth is unknown but many historians...

, a native guide, in 1621. Chickatawbut Road, one of the Blue Hills Reservation Parkways

Blue Hills Reservation Parkways

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, and Chickatawbut Hill, at 517 feet (157.6 m) the highest point in Quincy, Massachusetts

Quincy, Massachusetts

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, are named for him.