...n for these changes; and why it received its first name, history does not tell us. Josselyn in 1638, writes thus: On the north-west side of the (Mystic) river is the town of Mistick, three miles from Charlestown , a league and a half by water. This author gives the name of Mistick to land on the north side of the river, and reports a thriving population as then gathered between the two brick houses, called...