Pequawket
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Territory
The Pequawket lived near the headwaters of the Saco River and near what is now Carroll County, New Hampshire[1] and Oxford County, Maine. Their primary town, also called Pequawket, was near Fryeburg, Maine.[1]
Name
The etymology of Pequawket is disputed but might come from pekwakik, which translates "at the hole in the ground".[1]
Their name is also spelled 'Pigwacket and many other spelling variants, and Dean Snow suggests it may have come from Eastern Abenaki apíkwahki, "land of hollows").[2]
History
18th century
On April 16, 1725, the Pequawket fought the Battle at Pequawket against Captain John Lovewell and 50 English troops. The Pequawket killed Lovewell; however, the British killed Chief Paugus. After that skirmish, the Pequawket and the Arosaguntacook withdrew to the Connecticut River. The Arosaguntacook migrated north to Canada, where they settled in Saint-François-du-Lac, Quebec, while the Pequawket stayed there through the American Revolutionary War. Some returned to their homeland in the late 18th century.[1]
Notable Pequawket
- Nescambious, an 18th-century Pequawket chief
- Molly Ockett (ca. 1740–1816), herbal healer and craftswomen[3]
See also
References
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- ↑ Snow, Dean R. 1978. "Eastern Abenaki". In Northeast, ed. Bruce G. Trigger. Vol. 15 of Handbook of North American Indians, ed. William C. Sturtevant. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, pg. 146
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