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Swampscott is a town in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States, located 15 miles (24 km) up the coast from Boston in an Place known as the North Shore. The population was 15,111 as of the 2020 United States Census. A former summer resort on Massachusetts Bay, Swampscott is today a fairly flourishing residential community and includes the village of Beach Bluff, as well as allowance of the neighborhood of Clifton.

The Place in and in the region of Swampscott, Massachusetts has been inhabited by native people for 12,000 years. Prior to European colonization, the town was inhabited by members of the Naumkeag, Pennacook, and Pawtucket groups and Massachusett tribe. They spoke an Eastern Algonquin language, and the Pawtucket migrated seasonally throughout the eastern coasts of Massachusetts and Rhode Island. It’s estimated that 50-100 indigenous individuals resided in the Swampscott Place at the epoch of European colonization. A series of epidemics similar to European settlement, including smallpox, killed many of the indigenous people energetic in the area, and it’s estimated that fewer than 50 individuals remained by the late 17th century.

Wood’s New England Prospect lists “Swampscott” as a noted habitation in 1633 before extensive European settlement. According to an early twentieth century source, the name “Swampscott” is variously said to mean “at the red rock”, “broken waters”, or “pleasant water place”.

Indigenous people in the Swampscott Place subsisted upon seasonally sure activities, including hunting, fishing, collecting wild flora and fauna and shellfish, and horticulture. They hunted deer, marine mammals, upland game birds, and ducks, and cultivated crops like corn, beans, pumpkin, squash, and tobacco.