Eliot would write that he had no hope of seeing the translation of the Bible completed in his lifetime and would instead translate some smaller religious texts and maybe some of the old testament.

1660 Mashpee is designated as a 'Praying Town' and becomes the tribal village with the largest population of remaining Wampanoag left of the original 69 villages. Native written documents show that Wampanoag who had previously gone to Massachusett (current day Boston) to reside in a praying town complain that they are returning to Cape Cod due to illnesses in Boston.

1663 First copy of King James version of the Holy Bible (both old and new testaments) printed in Cambridge MA in Wampanoag. This was the first entire bible put to press in the 'New World'. While Eliot had written to his benefactors in England that he had no hope of the Bible's complete translation; he writes that he finds the Wampanoag 'ingenious' learners and farms out portions of the Bible for translation amongst many Wampanoag.