Nipmuck
Americannoun
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Nipmucks,
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Nipmuck
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There were also Nipmuck towns between Boston and the Connecticut River Valley, and the Abenakis held most of inland Maine.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018
The Wampanoag, along with the Nipmuck, Pocumtuck, and Narragansett, took up arms to drive the English from the land.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 30, 2014
Last year, 19 tribes sent representatives, including the Miwok and Maidu, from central California; the Pawnee, from Kansas and Nebraska; the Powhatan, from Virginia; and the Nipmuck, from Massachusetts.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 20, 2014
The Nipmuck Indians were a powerful tribe, consisting of many petty clans spread over the whole of the interior of Massachusetts.
From King Philip Makers of History by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott
In this fortress, within the territorial limits of the Nipmuck Indians, he also assembled a feeble train of women and children, the fragments of his slaughtered families.
From King Philip Makers of History by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott
But, to the west, the Narragansetts—traditional rivals largely untouched by the epidemic—now outnumbered the Wampanoags, and that led to the strengthening of Ousamequin’s alliances with the surviving Massachusett and another nearby group, the Nipmucks.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 18, 2019
The court at Boston, apprehensive that the Nipmucks might be induced to join King Philip, sent some messengers to treat with them.
From King Philip Makers of History by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott
Among the spoils which the victors brought away were a number of good muskets that had been captured by the Nipmucks in their assault upon Deerfield.
From The Beginnings of New England Or the Puritan Theocracy in its Relations to Civil and Religious Liberty by John Fiske
A new generation of Indians, too, had grown up, and, heedless of the lesson taught their fathers, the Narragansetts, Nipmucks, and Wampanoags, led by King Philip and Canonchet, rose upon the English.
From A School History of the United States by John Bach McMaster
Similar horrors were wrought at Middleborough and Taunton; and now the misery spread to Massachusetts, where on the 14th of July the town of Mendon was attacked by a party of Nipmucks.
From The Beginnings of New England Or the Puritan Theocracy in its Relations to Civil and Religious Liberty by John Fiske
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