The Pocomtuc (also Pocomtuck, Pocumtuc, Pocumtuck, or Deerfield Indians) were a Native American tribe historically inhabiting western areas of Massachusetts...
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Raid on Deerfield (category Pocomtuc)
Lorette, Mohawk from Kahnawake (both mission villages), and a number of Pocomtuc who had once lived in the Deerfield area. Given the diversity of personnel...
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Algonquian language family, including Wampanoag, Narragansett, Nipmuc, Pocomtuc, Mahican, and Massachusett. While cultivation of crops like squash and...
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some time prior to European exploration of the area. The agricultural Pocomtuc tribe lived in unfortified villages alongside the Connecticut River north...
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Facsimile of the 1636 deed between William Pynchon and 13 Pocomtuc tribesmen for the establishment of Springfield, previously Agawam Plantations, written...
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religion Related ethnic groups Other Nipmuc people, Massachusett, Wampanoag, Narragansett, Pennacook, Pocomtuc, Pequot, Mohegan and other Algonquian peoples...
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Pawtucket, merged into the Pennacook Pentucket Wachuset Wamesit Weshacum Pocomtuc tribe, also Deerfield Indians, western Massachusetts Wampanoag tribe, Rhode...
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records are incomplete, the first inhabitants were likely the Nipmuc or Pocomtuc tribes. During King Philip’s War (1675–1676), British settlers forced a...
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Swansea in June 1675. Metacomet was able to bring the Narragansett, Nipmuc, Pocomtuc, Podunk, Tunxi peoples into his forces, organizing attacks on numerous...
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their weapons.[unreliable source?] Philip gradually gained the Nipmuck, Pocomtuc, and Narragansett as allies, and the beginning of the uprising was first...
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Daniel Fisher and Eleazer Lusher were sent to purchase the land from the Pocomtuc Indians who lived there. They contracted with John Pynchon, who had a relationship...
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Pynchon purchased land on both sides of the Connecticut River from the local Pocomtuc Indians known as Agawam, which included present-day Springfield, Chicopee...
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Algonquian language family such as the Wampanoag, Narragansetts, Nipmucs, Pocomtucs, Mahicans, and Massachusetts. The Vermont and New Hampshire borders and...
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was 40,834 at the 2020 census. The area was originally inhabited by the Pocomtuc, and was called Woronoco (meaning "the winding land"). Trading houses were...
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a metonym for the entire town of Montague. Originally inhabited by the Pocomtuc tribe, the area was known as Peskeompskut. Montague was first settled by...
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against Uncas, sachem of the Mohegans, where the Podunks were aided by the Pocomtuc. In 1659, Thomas Burnham (1617–1688) purchased the tract of land now covered...
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Algonquian peoples. Though records are incomplete, the area was settled by the Pocomtuc, sometimes referred to as the Agawam or Nonotuck. English colonists arrived...
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area. Erving is located along the Mohawk Trail. The area was part of the Pocomtuc Indian Nation, whose villages included Squawkeag in what is now Northfield...
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connected in any way to the Essex County Agawam. The former were of the Pocomtuc and the latter of the Wampanoag peoples. The large variety of English variants...
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Massachusetts was originally settled by Native American societies, including the Pocomtuc, Nonotuck Mohawk, Nipmuck, and Mahican. Various sites indicate millennia...
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on the western bank of the Connecticut River, the explorers found the Pocomtuc (or perhaps Nipmuck) Indian village of Agawam. Just south of the Westfield...
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Metacomet (known as "King Philip") visited the Agawam Indians (of the Pocomtuc tribe) residing within the town and incited them to mount an attack on...
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Mahican, such as Hoosic, Housatonic, Mahkeenak, Quassuck and Mananosick and Pocomtuc examples such as Podatuck, Pocumtuck, Sunsick, Norwottuck and Pachassic...
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headwaters by Nipmuc bands and to the west by the Connecticut River where the Pocomtuc settled. The first reports of the peoples of Massachusetts' interior were...
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section now known as the Mohawk Trail (used by tribes such as the Mohawk and Pocomtuc) leads from the Connecticut River valley through the Berkshires and Mohawk...
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parts of the whole town was consumed and laid in ashes.". October 5 – The Pocomtuc tribe attacks and destroys the English settlement at Springfield, Massachusetts...
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the finest for farming in the Northeast. Cable and Woodcock found the Pocomtuc (or perhaps Nipmuck) village of Agawam on the western bank of the Connecticut...
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tribal groups active in the area included the Quinnipiac, Niantic, Pequot, Pocomtuc, and Mohegan. Traprock was used to make tools and arrowheads. Natives hunted...
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parts of the whole town was consumed and laid in ashes.". October 5 – The Pocomtuc tribe attacks and destroys the English settlement at Springfield, Massachusetts...
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Gray Lock (category Pocomtuc)
Gray Lock (or Greylock, born Wawanotewat, Wawanolet, or Wawanolewat), (ca. 1670-ca. 1750), was a Western Abenaki warrior chieftain of Woronoco/Pocumtuck...
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