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
In July 1675, three Christian Indians were sent as guides and interpreters to an expedition to treat with the Indians in the Nipmuck country.
From Pioneers and Founders or, Recent Workers in the Mission field by Charlotte Mary Yonge
A notorious Nipmuck chief, Monoco, called by the English One-eyed John, led this expedition.
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 Nipmucks of the Connecticut River, there, aided in the dreadful work.
From Boys' Book of Indian Warriors and Heroic Indian Women by Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand) Sabin
This pond was a bound mark between the Nipmucks and the Muhhekans, and was resorted to by Indians of both nations.
From The Composition of Indian Geographical Names Illustrated from the Algonkin Languages by J. Hammond (James Hammond) Trumbull
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
The more powerful tribes—Narragansetts, Nipmucks, and Mohegans—furnished very few converts.
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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