Namskaket (also Naamskeket, Naemschatet, Namskeket, Naumskachett) was a Nauset village on or near Namskaket Creek in Barnstable County,

Massachusetts Massachusetts (Massachusett language, Massachusett: ''Muhsachuweesut assachusett writing systems, məhswatʃəwiːsət'' English: , ), officially the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is the most populous U.S. state, state in the New England ...

, near the modern border between Brewster and Orleans. Native Americans sold the site to English colonists in 1644. It is now a village in Orleans.

References

* Frederick Webb Hodge, ed., ''Handbook of American Indians: North of Mexico'', Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 30, Part 2, 1910
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* ''Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey'' 114, 1894
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Former populated places in Massachusetts Pre-statehood history of Massachusetts Populated coastal places in Massachusetts Villages in Barnstable County, Massachusetts Orleans, Massachusetts {{BarnstableCountyMA-geo-stub