FDI - Pocomtuc

The Pocomtuc were a sedentary hunter/farmer tribe. They had villages in present Franklin, Hampshire and Hampton Counties, Massachusetts; and Thompson County, Connecticut, all in the valley of the Connecticut River. The tribe took considerable losses in war with other tribes and the Whites.

Aboriginal Locations: Subdivisions Villages

CT Mayawaug, Nameroke, Scitico

MA Agawam, Nonotuc, Pocomtuc, Squawkeag

Year	*History*
1606	Attacked by large Mohegan war party
1610	Arrival of Dutch traders on the Hudson River
1620	First met by the Whites after the landing at Plymouth, tribe subjugated by the Pequot
1624	Mohawk attacked Mahican drawing Pocomtuc into war
1630	Puritans landed
1633	Boston traders reached the Connecticut River
1635	Smallpox epidemic
1636	Agawam sold the first parcel of Pocumtuc land to the English; John Pynchon built a trading post near their village at Springfield, Massachusetts
1637	English colonists destroyed the Pequot
1640	Joined an alliance against the Mohegan
1658	Brief war with the Mohegan
1663	Mohawk raided large Pocomtuc village at Fort Hill, enemies repulsed but took heavy losses
1664	Abandoned Fort Hill and most of the Connecticut Valley
1675	Many joined King Philip's War against the colonists
1676	Pocumtuc joined with the Narragansett to attack Northfield; soon abandoned their homeland; most merged into Abenaki and St. Francois Indians
1723	Pocomtuc Grey Lock lead numerous Abenaki raids against the English during Grey Lock's War (1723-1727)

*Ethnie:*	POCOMTUC
*Language:*	Mahican
*Family:*	Eastern Algonquian
*Stock:*	Algonquian
*Phylum:*	Algic
*Macro-Culture:*	Eastern Woodlands
Speakers	None

Year	Total Population	CT	MA	Source
1600	1,200	500	700	Mooney estimate
1700	0			NAHDB calculation
1800	0			NAHDB calculation
1900	0			NAHDB calculation
2000	0			NAHDB calculation