Looking to validate this fellow’s ancestry, and found this.
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Our Own Pocahontas - The Montachusett T&G - Sunday, August 20, 1995
With the popular Disney film making the theaters, now is a good time to retell the memory of our own Pocahontas. Like that of the legendary heroine of Jamestown, VA, our local tale involves a beautiful young Indian princess who admires a handsome and brave white man, and vice versa, she saves him from her father's wrath in the nick of time. The real Pocahontas, as we know, saved Capt. John Smith's life in Jamestown in 1608. Captured and brought to Pocahontas' village, he was set before an altarstone to he killed by her father, Chief Powhatan. Our local heroine, "Silver Tongue," performed mcuch the same deed in 1747 in Athol (known then by its Indian name of Pequoig), so the story goes. The legendary encounter took place at Silver Lake, now Athol's favorite public resort. The sages of Silver Tongue and Pocahontas boh nudge the realm of myth. Yet there is no denying that Jason Babcock of Athol, Silver Tongue's object of affection, was a real person, like Captain Smith. In fact, Silver Lake originally was known as Jason's Pond. That's because he was the pioneer owner of the lake and its surrounding land. Jason, then 20, lived alone in a log cabin just over the hill on what is now Pequoig Avenue. One day while exploring his property, Jason came upon this quiet lake and saw a few Indian wigwams on its east shore. The ancient narrative then reads: "He approaches a wigwam and gazes upon a beautiful young maiden, Silver Tongue, so named by her father Chief Konkeput because of the silvery tones of her speech and song." She turns toward him. Their eyes meet. It's love at first sight. But alas, her stern father has been watching Jason's approach and the youngsters' mutual delight from a nearby thicket. Enraged, he springs out and rushes toward the love-smitten young man with a scalping knife. "Silver Tongue, ass did that other chieftain's daughter, leaps into her father's arms and begs him to spare the paleface. Konkeput shakes her off, and in hot pursuit starts for his victim. Seeing his danger, Babcock plunges into the lake. But when attempting to land upon the other shore (today the main beach), he is taken captive." Jason's hands are bound and, with only a moment to gaze back longingly at Silver Tongue weeping across the water, he is led away by several of Konkeput's men to a far distant place, Canada. After a year of captivity and negotiations with colonial authorities, a ransom in paid. Jason is set free and returns to his home, longing to find the girl who saved him from instant death and yearns to revive their romantic feelings. He also wants to make peace with Konkeput. But the tribe has moved away. The two young sweethearts will never meet again.
It is a historical fact that Jason Babcock was captured by Indians in Athol in the spring of 1747 and was taken to Canada until he returned to his childhood home in Westboro. There, in 1749 he married Mary Beeton and then raised a family. Subsequently, Babcock served during the French and Indian War, and in 1755 the Legislature recompensated him hor his captivity and his army service.
