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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Plymouth Colony. Pierce's troops caught up with the Narragansett, Wampanoag, Nashaway, Nipmuck, and Podunk fighters, but were ambushed in what is now Central...

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...

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...

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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Philip's War, Lancaster came under attack by Narragansett, Wampanoag, and Nashaway–Nipmuc groups led by Monoco. Rowlandson and her three children, Joseph...

and later attacked William Carpenter's home at Pawtuxet, and fought at Nashaway. Quinnapin was eventually captured by colonial forces and convicted and...

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...

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...

authority of the Massachusett sachem as far north as Lancaster, Massachusetts (Nashaway) and as far west as present day Deerfield, Massachusetts (Pocumtuc). By...

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...

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...

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...

coaster Monaco (cocktail), an alcoholic beverage Monoco, a 17th-century Nashaway chief This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title...

Look up Nashua in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Nashua may refer to: Nashaway people, Native American tribe living in 17th-century New England Nashua...

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...

Sassamon that would later assist Eliot with his translations, and Jethro, a Nashaway (northern Nipmuc) who later was preacher at Wamesit. Students would later...

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...

include groups of the western Pennacook as Sokoki: Amoskeag, Naamkeek, Nashaway, Souheyan, and Winnipesaukee. Sokoki is often confused with the Saco, a...

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...

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...

in Lancaster and their Native American neighbors, particularly those in Nashaway. This tension stemmed from the decline in the fur trade due to overhunting...

was careful to distinguish the Nipmuc (proper), Wabquasset, Quaboag, and Nashaway tribes. The situation was fluid since these Native groups were decentralized...

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...

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...

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....