While we know our northern friends may not feel it, in the South, Spring is
here. So we thought we'd share a few of our gardening sites appropriate
for this time of the year. Along with gardening, there's grilling, and getting
ready to diet so that you can fit back into that bathing suit this summer!
Pequawket (a name of disputed
etymology, the most probable rendering, according to Gerard, being 'at the
hole in the ground,' from pekwakik). A tribe of the Abnaki
confederacy, formerly living on the headwaters of Saco river and about
Lovell's pond, in Carroll county, N. H., and Oxford county, Me. Their
principal village, called Pequawket, was about the present Fryeburg, Me.
The tribe is famous for a battle fought in 1725 near the village, between
about 50 English under Capt. Lovewell and 80 Indians, the entire force of
the tribe, under their chief, Pangus. Both leaders were killed, together
with 36 of the English and a large part of the Indian force. By this loss
the Pequawket were so weakened that, together with the Arosaguntacook,
they soon after withdrew to the sources of Connecticut river.
After being here for a short while, the Arosaguntacook
removed to St Francis in Canada, while the Pequawket remained on the
Connecticut, where they were still living under their chief at the time of
the Revolution. Some of them seem to have found their way back to their
old home some time after the Lovewell fight.
