Nessmuk
Posted by PA Heritage Staff on Nov 25, 2013 in | Comments Off on Nessmuk George Washington Sears was born in South Oxford, Massachusetts, in 1821, the oldest of ten children. At the age of eight, he was put to work in a cotton mill, frequently escaping to the woods with a young Narragansett Indian named Nessmuk (meaning wood duck or wood drake), who taught him how to hunt, fish, and set up camp. At the age of twelve, Sears escaped to his grandmother’s house on...read more