Seekonk

[…] diverce tounships established and setled in severall quarters of yᵉ govermente, as Plimoth, Duxberie, Sityate, Tanton, Sandwich, Yarmouth, Barnstable, Marchfeeld, and not longe after, Seacunke (called afterward, at yᵉ desire of yᵉ inhabitants, Rehoboth) and Nawsett […]

1639–1640, William Bradford, “Of Plimoth Plantation, Book II”, in MHS Collections, series 4, volume 3, Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, published 1856, →OCLC, page 372

I first pitch't and begun to build and plant at Secunk, now Rehoboth, but I received a letter from my antient friend Mr. Winslow, then Governour of Plymmouth, professing his oune and others love and respect to me, yet lovingly advising me, since I was fallen into the edge of their bounds and they were loth to displease the Bay, to remove but to the other side of the water, and then he said I had the country free before me, and might be as free as themselves, and wee should be loving neighbour's togeather.

1670, Roger Williams, “A Letter from Roger Williams to Major Mason”, in MHS Collections, series 1, volume 1, Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, published 1792, →OCLC, page 276

In that the lands are indubitably within the limits and bounds of his majesty's colony of New-Plymouth, contained within the express limits of his royal charter, and therein granted, and are within the bounds of an English town of that colony, planted by them near seventy years since, called Secunke and Swansey.

1679, “Letter of the Commissioners of the United Colonies of New-England respecting Mount Hope”, in MHS Collections, series 1, volume 5, Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, published 1798, →OCLC, page 227

Without any guide but heaven they wandered southward, and came to a place called Seaconk; and thinking they were now far enough removed from their offended brethren, designed to sit down there; But it seems, the fame of their heretical opinions had reached to Plymouth, and thereupon an officer was sent from thence to order them to depart out of that colony also.

1765, Stephen Hopkins (ascribed), “Account of Providence, R.I.”, in MHS Collections, series 2, volume 9, Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, published 1822, →OCLC, page 169

Williams and a handful of men set out across the Seekonk to a wide cove downriver on the western bank, where they were greeted by a band of Narragansett who shouted from a rocky outcrop on the hill, “What cheer, Netop?” a phrase that was to become iconic in Rhode Island lore.

2013, Robert A. Geake, “Chapter 1: The Founding of Providence”, in A History of the Providence River, Charleston, SC: The History Press, →ISBN