John Eliot and Daniel Gookin visited Wabquisset in 1674 to preach to upward of one hundred and fifty Indians. Soon after, King Philip's War broke out, and by August 1675 Captain Nathaniel Thomas of Providence reported a very good inland country, well watered with rivers and brooks, with especially good land, great quantities of especially good corn and beans, and wigwams as he had never seen the like, but not an Indian to be seen. On April 1, 1686, thirteen men from Roxbury, Massachusetts, went to spy out a settlement. They set up a house on Plaine Hill, where on August 25, 1686, the first public meeting was held. Being met at New Roxbury alias Wapaquasset, the planters agreed that the place where home-lots should begin should be upon Plaine Hill, and a highway was laid out extending from Sawmill Brooke to North Running Brook. Samuel Sewall renamed Woodstock in 1690 because of its nearness to Oxford for the sake of Queen Elizabeth.