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Nashaway
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 northern half of Worcester County, Massachusetts, mainly in the vicinity of Sterling, Clinton, Lancaster and other towns near Mount Wachusett, as well as southern New Hampshire.Gordon M. Day, "Western Abenaki," p. 148 The meaning of ''Nashaway'' is "between," an adverbial form derived from "nashau" meaning "someone is between/in the middle" = adverbial suffix "we" Territory The Nashaway's principal settlement was Waushacum (possibly meaning "surface of the sea"), a parcel of land in what is now Sterling that was located between two ponds of the same name. The territory of the Nashaway was bounded downstream (to the north) on the Nashua River by the Pennacook, a powerful tribe with which numerous alliances were formed, to the east by tribes related to the Massachusett, to the south of the headwaters by Nipmuc bands and to th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sholan
Sholan (died 1654) (also known as 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 now Sterling, Massachusetts. Bypassing Willard's trading post in Concord, Sholan often visited Thomas King's trading post at Watertown to sell pelts, and developed a friendship with King. In 1641 or 1642 Sholan recommended that King move to the Nashua Valley, likely to make it easier for the Nashaway to transport goods and to protect the Nashaway's position from encroachment by others. In 1643 Sholan sold King and others in the Nashway Company an eighty-mile square tract of land, which became the towns of Lancaster, Berlin, Boylston, Bolton, Sterling, Clinton, and Harvard. Sholan and several other Nashaway were also remembered for escorting John Eliot on one of his journeys in 1648 Eliot wrote a letter to Edward Winslow stating:"''Shawanon the great Sachym of Nashawog doth embrace ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sholan Farms
Sholan (died 1654) (also known as 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 now Sterling, Massachusetts. Bypassing Willard's trading post in Concord, Sholan often visited Thomas King's trading post at Watertown to sell pelts, and developed a friendship with King. In 1641 or 1642 Sholan recommended that King move to the Nashua Valley, likely to make it easier for the Nashaway to transport goods and to protect the Nashaway's position from encroachment by others. In 1643 Sholan sold King and others in the Nashway Company an eighty-mile square tract of land, which became the towns of Lancaster, Berlin, Boylston, Bolton, Sterling, Clinton, and Harvard. Sholan and several other Nashaway were also remembered for escorting John Eliot on one of his journeys in 1648 Eliot wrote a letter to Edward Winslow stating:"''Shawanon the great Sachym of Nashawog doth embrace ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Tahanto
George Tahanto (died 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 New Hampshire. Tahanto was the nephew of Sachem Sholan. Early life and background Tahanto was baptized as a Christian, and eventually succeeded his uncle, Sholan, as leader of the Nashaway (Pennacook confederation). The name "Tahanto" may have also been used by an earlier "Tahanto, Sagmore of Pencooke" who was living near what is now Concord, New Hampshire in 1636, when he "granted to William Hilton Seniour & William Hilton Juniour six Miles of Land lying on ye River River Penneconquigg being a rivulette running into Penacooke River." In 1668 Tahanto opposed drunkenness amongst the Pennacook and helped execute a tribe member who committed a murder while intoxicated. Conflict with settlers and leaving homeland On January 27, 1699 George Tahanto and his cousin, Wattanummon, went to Boston and ratified a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Groton, Massachusetts
Groton is a town in northwestern Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, within the Greater Boston metropolitan area. The population was 11,315 at the 2020 census. An affluent bedroom community roughly 45 miles from Boston, Groton has a large population of professional workers, many of whom work in Boston's tech industry. It is loosely connected to Boston by highways ( Route 2) and commuter rail (the MBTA Fitchburg Line). The town has a long history dating back to the colonial era. It was a battlefield in King Philip's War and Queen Anne's War, and several Grotonians played notable roles in the American Revolution (including William Prescott, the American commander at the Battle of Bunker Hill) and Shays' Rebellion. Groton is home to two college-preparatory boarding schools: Lawrence Academy at Groton, founded in 1792; and Groton School, founded in 1884. Notable Groton residents include former U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, sports writers Peter Gammons and Dan Sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monoco
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, tensions arose between settlers and natives. The Nashaway attacked the neighboring English settlement in the Lancaster Raid of Lancaster, Massachusetts, in August 1675 and again in February 1676 with Sagamore Sam as part of the more general native-settler conflict known as King Philip's War. During the latter action, Monoco kidnapped a villager, Mary Rowlandson, and took her and her children with him and his party for many weeks. Rowlandson later wrote and published what became a best-selling narrative about her captivity with the Indians and release, '' A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson''. On March 13, 1676, Monoco raided Groton, Massachusetts. He took control of a garrison house in the center of town and proceeded to parley with a Captain James Parker, threatening to burn "Chelmsfo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lancaster, Massachusetts
Lancaster is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. Incorporated in 1653, Lancaster is the oldest town in Worcester County. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the town population was 8,441. History In 1643 Lancaster was first settled as "Nashaway" (named after the local Nashaway Native Americans in the United States, Native American tribe) by a group of colonists known as the Nashaway Company who may have initially been interested in iron deposits in the area. Several of the company were blacksmiths or gunsmiths, including, Herman Garrett, and as early as 1653 a settler, George Adams, was whipped for selling guns and alcohol to the Indians in the area. The town was officially incorporated and renamed "Lancaster on the Nashua" in 1653. Prominent Massachusetts military leader Simon Willard (first generation), Simon Willard served as an advisor to the company and eventually settled in Lancaster for a period, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lancaster, MA
Lancaster is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. Incorporated in 1653, Lancaster is the oldest town in Worcester County. As of the 2020 census, the town population was 8,441. History In 1643 Lancaster 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 initially been interested in iron deposits in the area. Several of the company were blacksmiths or gunsmiths, including, Herman Garrett, and as early as 1653 a settler, George Adams, was whipped for selling guns and alcohol to the Indians in the area. The town was officially incorporated and renamed "Lancaster on the Nashua" in 1653. Prominent Massachusetts military leader Simon Willard served as an advisor to the company and eventually settled in Lancaster for a period, and provided guns to the local tribe by order of the Massachusetts General Court. Supporters of Lancaster's founder, John Prescott ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Jethro
Peter Jethro (also known as Jethro or AnimatohuBarry, William, ''A History of Framingham, Massachusetts'' (Boston: James Munroe and Company, 1847), 19-20 or HantomushGutteridge, William H. (1921)''A Brief History of the Town of Maynard, Massachusetts'' Maynard, MA: Town of Maynard, p. 13-16 ) ( – ) was an early Native American (Nipmuc) scribe, translator, minister, land proprietor, and Praying Indian affiliated for a period with John Eliot in the praying town of Natick, Massachusetts. Early life Peter Jethro was born in approximately 1614 and was the son of the Nipmuc medicine man Tantamous (also known as "Old Jethro"), although some early records and histories confuse the father and son. Peter Jethro stated that he was "one of the ancient native hereditary Indian proprietors of" Assabet (near what is now Maynard, Massachusetts). By 1635 Peter Jethro resided in Nashobah (near Nagog Pond on the modern day boundary of Littleton and Acton) near Concord and was present with a gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nashua River
The Nashua River, long,U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map accessed October 3, 2011 is a tributary of the Merrimack River in Massachusetts and New Hampshire in the United States. It is formed in eastern Worcester County, Massachusetts, at the confluence of the North Nashua River and South Nashua River, and flows generally north-northeast past Groton to join the Merrimack at Nashua, New Hampshire. The Nashua River watershed occupies a major portion of north-central Massachusetts and a much smaller portion of southern New Hampshire. The North Nashua River rises west of Fitchburg and Westminster. It flows about generally southeast past Fitchburg, and joins the South Nashua River, shown on USGS topographic maps as the main stem of the Nashua River, about below its issuance from the Wachusett Reservoir. History The river's name derives from an Algonkian word meaning "beautiful river with a pebbly bottom." The Nash ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pennacook
The Pennacook, also known by the names Penacook and Pennacock, were Algonquian Indigenous people who lived in what is now Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and southern Maine. They were not a united tribe but a network of politically and culturally allied communities. Penacook was also the name of a specific Native village in what is now Concord, New Hampshire. The Pennacook were related to but not a part of the original Wabanaki Confederacy, which includes the Miꞌkmaq, Maliseet, Passamaquoddy, and Penobscot peoples. Name Pennacook is also written as Penacook and Pennacock. The name ''Pennacook'' roughly translates (based on Abenaki cognates) as "at the bottom of the hill." Territory Historian David Stewart-Smith suggests that the Penacook were Central Abenaki people. Their southern neighbors were the Massachusett and Wampanoag. Pennacook territory bordered the Connecticut River in the West, Lake Winnipesauke in the north, the Piscataqua to the east, and the villages o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sterling, Massachusetts
Sterling is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 7,985 at the 2020 census. History Previous to its incorporation, it was "the Second Parish of Lancaster." It was commonly called by a portion of its Indian name, Chocksett. There was an Indian fort and graveyard located between East Waushacum Pond and West Waushacum Pond. Sagamore Sam, a Nashaway sachem and insurgent during King Philip's War, was from Waushacum. The Nipmuc minister, Peter Jethro, worked in the area in the 1670s. The original Indian name of the area was Woonsechocksett. The land encompassing the Chocksett region was not originally included in the first land sold by the great Indian Chief Sholan to the settlers of the Lancaster grant. However, Sholan's nephew Tahanto would eventually sell the Chocksett land to the inhabitants of Lancaster in 1713. The first white settlers arrived in Chocksett seven years later, in 1720, formerly inhabitants of Lancaster proper. Among ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
King Philip's War
King Philip's War (sometimes called the First Indian War, Metacom's War, Metacomet's War, Pometacomet's Rebellion, or Metacom's Rebellion) was an armed conflict in 1675–1678 between a group of indigenous peoples of the Northeastern Woodlands against the English New England Colonies and their indigenous allies. The war is named for Metacom (alternatively Metacomet), the Pokanoket chief and sachem of the Wampanoag who had adopted the English name Philip because of the friendly relations between his father Massasoit and the Plymouth Colony. The war continued in the most northern reaches of New England until the signing of the Treaty of Casco Bay on April 12, 1678. Massasoit had maintained a long-standing agreement with the colonists and Metacom (), his younger son, became the tribal chief in 1662 after his father's death. Metacom, however, forsook his father's alliance between the Wampanoags and the colonists after repeated violations by the latter. The colonists insist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
