Jul 9, 2019 · Dover’s early settlers lived in relative peace with the local Pennacook tribe, learning hunting, fishing, and farming skills from the natives in the early 17th century. (A historical marker located in Dover in Strafford County, New Hampshire.)

In the 1600s, the French established New France in Canada, and the English settled in Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts, encroaching on Pennacook lands. With their villages inland on the Merrimack River, the Pennacook had …

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. [1]

The Dover Public Library is located at Cocheco (CO-chi-co) within N’dakinna (n-DA-ki-na), now called Dover, New Hampshire, which is the unceded traditional ancestral homeland of the Abenaki (a-BEN-a-ki), Pennacook, and Wabanaki Peoples, past and present.

May 18, 2015 · In June 1689 several hundred Abenaki and Pennacook Indians raided Dover and killed more than 20 and took 29 captives. This was one quarter of the Dover population. The raid was quite a blow to the English settlements in New Hampshire.

Feb 26, 2023 · In the early 1500s, European explorers came to New Hampshire, and many documented the lives of the Abenaki and Pennacook tribes. However, more and more European explorers began to come to New Hampshire, and by the 1600s, the state’s Native American population was sent into decline.

Aug 10, 2006 · Two Native American bands, originally living in the New Hampshire region, were the Abenaki and the Western Pennacook. Words such as Amoskeag, Coos, Kancamagus, Merrimack, Nashua (Nashaway), Piscataqua, Souhegan, Winipesaukee — have a familiar ring to most New Hampshirites.

Title: The Pennacook Indians and the New England frontier, circa 1604-1733 / by David Stewart-Smith. Author: Stewart-Smith, David. Call Number: 970.3 S849. Publication Information: Ann Arbor, MI : UMI Dissertation Services, 1999. Physical Description: 430 p. : maps ; 22 cm. Subjects: Abenaki Indians., Indians of North America History. New England

Feb 8, 2019 · When Europeans settled in New England in the 1620s, the largest Native American tribal group in the future state of New Hampshire used the flat lands and bends of the Merrimack River in present Concord for its central village. Named “Pennacook", which means “at the failing bank". they were a branch of the Abenaki.

—The number of Pennacook is estimated by Mooney (1928) at 2,000 in 1600 and 1,250 in 1676. The remnant is included among the 250 St. Francis Indians returned in 1924. Connection in which they have become noted.