NASHAWAY

The 'Nashaway' (or 'Nashua' or 'Weshacum') were a tribe of Algonquian Indians inhabiting the Nashua River valley in present-day central Massachusetts in the 17th Century.
After decades of peaceful coexistence, the Nashaway attacked the neighboring English settlement of Lancaster, Massachusetts in August 1675 and again in February 1676 as part of the more general native-settler conflict known as King Philips War. During the latter action, the Nashaway sachem (chief), Monoco (“One-eyed John”), kidnapped a villager, Mary Rowlandson, who later wrote a best-selling narrative about her captivity and release.

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★ Bourne, Russell (1990), ''The Red King's Rebellion: Racial Politics in New England, 1675-1678'', Atheneum Publishers, pg 163 ff.