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Massawomeck people

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204:(Anacostan) intermediaries. Edward was successful and several groups of Massawomeck arrived at the falls that summer. Fleet recorded that the Massawomeck were a confederacy who lived in palisaded towns, one of which contained over 300 houses. Fleet's journal includes six Massawomeck words, five names and a word of greeting (quo). Four of the words were names of Massawomeck settlements (Skaunetowa, Touhoga, Usserahak, Mosticum), and one name was of a non-Massawomeck group (Herecheenes). 234:
until conflict with the Haudenosaunee forced them to migrate south in the mid-1620s. This theory, however, fails to explain Smith's encounter with the Massawomeck on Chesapeake Bay in 1608, nor does it account for the significant Massawomeck aggression against the Algonquian peoples on the upper
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people who lived on the east side of the Chesapeake. The Massawomeck cautiously approached Smith's boat which eventually led to an exchange of gifts. The Tockwogh later reported that the Massawomeck were the "mortal enemies" of the
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The Massawomeck appear in the journal of English fur trader Henry Fleet. In June 1632, Fleet sent his brother Edward up the Potomac River to invite the Massawomeck bring their furs to the
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people who inhabited the upper Youghiogheny River and Monongahela River watersheds,. Some early 16th century movement into the upper Potomac River watershed may also have occurred.
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Chesapeake well before 1620. It also ignores the likelihood that when Champlain wrote about the Antouhonorons he was referring to the non-Mohawk tribes of the Haudenosaunee.
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Johnson, William C. (2001). "The Protohistoric Monongahela and the Case for a Iroquois Connection". In Brose, David S.; Cowan, C. Wesley; Mainfort, Robert C. (eds.).
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Historical writers in the 19th and the early 20th centuries identified the Massawomeck as either the
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The Massawomeck: Raiders and Traders into the Chesapeake Bay in the Seventeenth Century
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on his map of 1632. Pendergast hypothesized that the Massawomeck had lived east of the
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Sorg, David J. (2015). "Henry Fleet's Journal and the Languages of Pennsylvania".
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during the early 17th century. Their territory encompassed the headwaters of the
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The first documented European contact with the Massawomeck occurred during
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prisoner who also reported that the Massawomeck lived on a great water.
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Attacks by the Seneca displaced the Massawomeck from their territory
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of the Potomac River and trade directly with him rather than through
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Recent research has identified the Massawomeck as the protohistoric
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Richardson, James B.; Anderson, David A.; Cook, Edward R. (2002).
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who lived on the Susquehanna River north of the Chesapeake.
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proposed that the Massawomeck were the Antouhonorons who
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Index

Massawomeck
Maryland
West Virginia
Pennsylvania
Iroquoian
Native
Iroquoian people
Maryland
West Virginia
Monongahela
Youghiogheny
Potomac
John Smith
Chesapeake Bay
Elk River
Algonquian
Susquehannock
Wahunsenacawh
Powhatan
Piscataway
Patawomeck
Manahoac
Jean Bourdon
Nicolas Sanson
Appalachians
Great Falls
Nacotchtank
Haudenosaunee
Seneca
Canadian Museum of History

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