Their primary town, also called Pequawket, was near Fryeburg, Maine.

Name

The etymology of Pequawket is disputed but might come from pekwakik, which translates "at the hole in the ground".

Their name is also spelled 'Pigwacket and many other spelling variants, and Dean Snow suggests it may have come from Eastern Abenaki apíkwahki, "land of hollows").

History

18th century

On April 16, 1725, the

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