Well see in the 1670's there were a ring of about a dozen "praying" (Christianized) towns, including Mashpee, Natick, and Nonantum, that had thrown in for mutual defense with the English colonists. Some went to Roxbury Latin and Harvard, where they learned Greek, Latin, and Hebrew. But then during King Phillips' War (against other, non-praying communities) the colonists decided they didn't really trust their own local allies, and put them out on deer island for the winter, and they died. (Okay, they forced some of them men to act as scouts, at pain of killing their families.)

Anyway Natick is a cool name, I like it too.