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    The Pequawket were a Native American band of Abenaki people. In the 18th century, they lived in New Hampshire and Maine. The Pequawket lived near the headwaters...
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    The Battle of Pequawket (also known as Lovewell's Fight) occurred on May 9, 1725 (O.S.), during Father Rale's War in northern New England. Captain John...
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    Geographic Names accepted the name "Pequawket Mountain" in 1915 but it was renamed Kearsarge North in 1957. The Pequawket are a subdivision of the Abenaki...
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    when the Pequawkets opened fire. The survivors managed to retreat to a strong position, and fended off repeated attacks until the Pequawkets withdrew...
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    Pequawket Brook is a 6.4-mile-long (10.3 km) stream near the White Mountains of New Hampshire in the United States. It lies within the watershed of the...
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    Pequawket tribe which lived along the Saco River in present-day Conway, New Hampshire, and Fryeburg, Maine. He was killed at the Battle of Pequawket in...
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    with the English soured. During Father Rale's War, Pequawket was attacked in the Battle at Pequawket on May 8, 1725, by John Lovewell and his militia....
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    Norridgewock (1724), where Rasles was killed, and at a daylong battle at Pequawket, an Indian village near present-day Fryeburg, Maine, on the upper Saco...
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    returning home after the historical battle known as Battle of Pequawket. Following Battle of Pequawket (Hawthorne uses the name Lovell's Fight after Captain John...
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    features a popular outlet shopping district. The region was once home to the Pequawket Indians, an Algonquian Abenaki tribe. Along the Saco River they fished...
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    Segocket, and Wabigganus. Now a separate federally recognized tribe. Pequawket (also Pigwacket, Pequaki), lived along the Saco River and in the White...
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    Dummer's War, with the capture of Norridgewock in 1724 and the defeat of the Pequawket in 1725, which significantly reduced their numbers. They finally withdrew...
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    member of the Androscoggin tribe. In 1725, the Androscoggin joined the Pequawket and migrated to the Connecticut River in New Hampshire. They later migrated...
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    Passamaquoddy Eastern Abenaki (Penobscot, Kennebec, Arosaguntacook, Pigwacket/Pequawket Western Abenaki (Arsigantegok, Missisquoi, Cowasuck, Sokoki, Pennacook...
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  • to garrison the fort while the rest left to raid the Abenaki town of Pequawket, now Fryeburg, Maine. On May 9, as the militiamen were being led in prayer...
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    the war spread to other parts of New England. The Kennebec, Pigwacket (Pequawkets), and Arosaguntacook from Maine joined in the war against the colonists...
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    conducted scalp-hunting expeditions, the most famous being the Battle of Pequawket in New Hampshire.[citation needed] In the 1710s and 1720s, New France...
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  • (born c. 1740, Saco, Maine, died August 2, 1816, Andover, Maine), was a Pequawket Abenaki woman who lived in the regions of northern New Hampshire, Maine...
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  • (1722–1725) New England Colonies Mohawk Wabanaki Confederacy Abenaki Pequawket Mi'kmaq Maliseet King George's War (1744–1748)  Kingdom of France  New...
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    Passamaquoddy Eastern Abenaki (Penobscot, Kennebec, Arosaguntacook, Pigwacket/Pequawket) Western Abenaki (Arsigantegok, Missisquoi, Cowasuck, Sokoki, Pennacook...
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    territory of the Abenaki tribe, whose main village was at Pequawket (now Fryeburg) up the Pequawket Trail (now Route 113). In 1750, the Massachusetts General...
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    Culloden, and became Secretary of State. Early settlers called the area Pequawket (known colloquially as "Pigwacket"), adopting the name of the Abenaki...
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    Hampshire; later Saint-François-du-Lac, Quebec Kennebec (Caniba), Maine Pequawket ('Pigwacket), Maine and New Hampshire Western Abenaki: Quebec, Massachusetts...
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  • been crew members on early Yankee whaleships. A small contingent of six Pequawket Indians from the Saco River region of Maine also joined the company, several...
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    1725, during Father Rale's War against the Sokokis Abenaki Indians at Pequawket (now Fryeburg). First settled in 1777, the community had 85 inhabitants...
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  • Known for Hunter trapper soldier judge Battles / wars Dummer's War Battle of Pequawket King George's War French and Indian War Battle of Lake George Siege of...
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    England) and as being either the ancestors or close relatives of the Pequawket who lived along the river near present-day Fryeburg. William O. Bright...
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    Stoneham, Waterford Hutchinson Pond 88 36 1,351 1,666,000 Albany Twp Pequawket Lake 81 33 759 936,000 Brownfield Big Clemons Pond 81 33 1,219 1,504,000...
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    stop along the Pequawket Trail, the former wilderness path of the Sokokis Abenakis which runs from Standish to Fryeburg (site of Pequawket, their stockaded...
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  • War (1722–25) New England Colonies Mohawk Wabanaki Confederacy Abenaki Pequawket Mi'kmaq Maliseet Dummer's Treaty King George's War (1744–48)  France  New...
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