The Nashaway (or Nashua or Weshacum) were a tribe of Algonquian Indians inhabiting the upstream portions of the Nashua River valley in what is now the...
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American attack Belligerents Wampanoags Nipmucks Podunks Narragansetts Nashaway Wabanakis New England Confederation Mohegans Pequots Mohawks Commanders...
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Plymouth Colony. Pierce's troops caught up with the Narragansett, Wampanoag, Nashaway, Nipmuck, and Podunk fighters, but were ambushed in what is now Central...
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population was 8,479 at the 2020 census. Ayer was originally inhabited by the Nashaway, a Nipmuc people that inhabited the lands along the Nashua River and its...
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Nashawhonan, Nashoonan, Shawanon, and Showanon) was the leader (sachem) of the Nashaway tribe who lived on small hill between the two Waushacum Lakes in what is...
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after 1704) (also known as Sagamore George or Tohanto) was a leader of the Nashaway tribe within the Pennacook confederation in what is now Massachusetts and...
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was first settled as "Nashaway" (named after the local Nashaway Native American tribe) by a group of colonists known as the Nashaway Company who may have...
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England Confederation Mohegan Pequots Wampanoag Nipmuc Podunk Narragansett Nashaway 1675 1705 Revolutions of Tunis Husainid dynasty Muradid dynasty 1676 1681...
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Philip's War, Lancaster came under attack by Narragansett, Wampanoag, and Nashaway–Nipmuc groups led by Monoco. Rowlandson and her three children, Joseph...
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and later attacked William Carpenter's home at Pawtuxet, and fought at Nashaway. Quinnapin was eventually captured by colonial forces and convicted and...
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Monoco (died 1676) was a 17th-century Nashaway sachem (chief), known among the New England Puritans as One-eyed John. After decades of peaceful coexistence...
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purchased the land from the sachem Sholan of the Nashaway as the southeastern corner of the Nashaway (Lancaster) purchase. The land in what is now Bolton...
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authority of the Massachusett sachem as far north as Lancaster, Massachusetts (Nashaway) and as far west as present day Deerfield, Massachusetts (Pocumtuc). By...
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Algonquian-speaking Nipmuc and Nashaway Indians. Groton began as a trading post of John Tinker, who conducted business with the Nashaway tribe at the confluence...
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settlers negotiated with Chief Sholan and his nephew George Tahanto of the Nashaway tribe for the land. It would be the only parcel of land to be legally purchased...
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on across the Massachusetts border. The Nashua River was named by the Nashaway people, and in the Penacook language it means "beautiful stream with a...
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coaster Monaco (cocktail), an alcoholic beverage Monoco, a 17th-century Nashaway chief This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title...
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Look up Nashua in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Nashua may refer to: Nashaway people, Native American tribe living in 17th-century New England Nashua...
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that was formally laid out in 1658. They settled on land purchased from Nashaway sachems Sholan and his nephew George Tahanto. There were few inhabitants...
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Sassamon that would later assist Eliot with his translations, and Jethro, a Nashaway (northern Nipmuc) who later was preacher at Wamesit. Students would later...
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a part of Lancaster after the land was deeded by Sachem Sholan of the Nashaway in 1643. It was officially incorporated as a separate town on March 14...
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include groups of the western Pennacook as Sokoki: Amoskeag, Naamkeek, Nashaway, Souheyan, and Winnipesaukee. Sokoki is often confused with the Saco, a...
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Skakeat/Squakheag was the site of modern-day Northfield and was home to the Nashaway Nipmuc and Sokoki Abenaki. Northfield was first colonized by European settlers...
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of Merrymac. At that time fewer than 50 families lived here. Pawtucket, Nashaway and Pennacook people camped along the banks of the Merrimack and Souhegan...
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in Lancaster and their Native American neighbors, particularly those in Nashaway. This tension stemmed from the decline in the fur trade due to overhunting...
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was careful to distinguish the Nipmuc (proper), Wabquasset, Quaboag, and Nashaway tribes. The situation was fluid since these Native groups were decentralized...
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Massachusetts, and he was born in 1657. Indeed, it was Lancaster, then called Nashaway, where Willard fled to after being accused of witchcraft. During his youth...
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part of the present-day town, most notably by the Sawyer family after Nashaway sachems Sholan and George Tahanto deeded the land. In 1697, the residents...
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Boston. The population was 3,158 at the 2020 census. Berlin was home to the Nashaway, and Sachem Sholan deeded part of the town's land to settlers in 1643....
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