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!
Pocomtuc. A tribe formerly living on
Deerfield and Connecticut rivers, in Franklin county, Mass. Their
principal village, of the same name, was near the present Deerfield, and
they were frequently known as Deerfield Indians. They had a fort on Ft
Dill in the same vicinity, which was destroyed by the Mohawk after a hard
battle in 1666.
They were all important tribe, and seem to have ruled
overall the other Indians of the Connecticut valley within the limits of
Massachusetts, including those at Agawam, Nonotue, and Squawkeag. They
combined with the Narraganset
and Tunxis in the attacks on
Uncas, the Mohegan chief. All these joined the hostile Indians under
King Philip in 1675, and at the close of the war in the following year
fled to Scaticook, on the Hudson, where some of them remained until about
1754, when they joined the Indians in the French interest at St Francis,
Quebec.
