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Pennacook

Confederacy of the Merrimack valley under Passaconaway, devastated by the epidemics of 1616-19 and 1633.

Dispersed after 1676; descendants merged into the Western Abenaki at Odanak and the refugee town of Schaghticoke.

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Borders over time

The atlas holds 2 border frames for Pennacook — the shape you scrub through changes in 1620 · 1676.

Further reading

• Dawnland Encounters: Indians and Europeans in Northern New England Colin G. Calloway · 1991

  Northern New England contact history spanning the Merrimack-valley peoples like the Pennacook.

• Manitou and Providence: Indians, Europeans, and the Making of New England, 1500-1643 Neal Salisbury · 1982

  Covers the New England epidemics and disruptions of 1616-1643 that devastated Passaconaway's Merrimack confederacy.

Sources

• Pennacook — Wikipedia