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    camp during wartime about half a mile away, and began looting of the Peskeompskut camp, killing between 100 and 200 people, mostly women and children....
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    played an important role in the Battle of Great Falls / Wissantinnewag – Peskeompskut on May 19, 1676, and tribal oral tradition indicates that following the...
    46 KB (4,634 words) - 05:42, 20 October 2024
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    Philip's War. As the historian Russell Bourne points out, “After the Peskeompskut massacre, allied sachems openly discussed the strategy of King Phillip...
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  • Thumbnail for Montague, Massachusetts
    Montague. Originally inhabited by the Pocomtuc tribe, the area was known as Peskeompskut. Montague was first settled by Europeans in 1715 and was incorporated...
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    William Turner led an army of settlers in a surprise retaliatory attack on Peskeompskut, in present-day Montague, then a traditional native gathering place....
    32 KB (3,692 words) - 03:47, 12 November 2024
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    Captain William Turner led an army of settlers in a surprise attack on Peskeompskut, in present-day Montague, then a traditional native gathering place....
    70 KB (8,731 words) - 19:47, 13 November 2024
  • May 1976). "Technical Report: Battle of Great Falls / Wissatinnewag-Peskeompskut" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 December 2016. Retrieved...
    19 KB (1,880 words) - 06:36, 13 November 2024
  • May 1976). "Technical Report: Battle of Great Falls / Wissatinnewag-Peskeompskut" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 December 2016. Retrieved...
    10 KB (1,244 words) - 19:48, 6 July 2024
  • group of Native Americans who then encamped to celebrate and feast at Peskeompskut, later called Turners Falls, Massachusetts. On May 18, 1676, a force...
    26 KB (3,444 words) - 17:45, 22 September 2024