A- Maine Indian Villages, Towns and Settlements

A complete listing of all the Indian villages, towns and settlements as listed in Handbook of Americans North of Mexico.

Ammoncongan. A village, probably be longing to the Abnaki, on the N. E. side of Presumpscot r., at Saccarappa falls, Cumberland co., Me. Deed of 1657 in Me. Hist. Soc. Coll., I, 118, 1865.

Aquadocta. The dwelling place of “a tribe of Indians” in 1690, living westward from Casco and Saco, Me. , and seemingly allied with the Abnaki. Niles (ca. 1761) in Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll. ,3d s. , vi, 217, 1837.

Asnela. A small island in Penobscot r., Me., occupied by the Penobscot. The name is derived from that of an Indian called Assen or Ossen. Gatschet, Penobscot MS., B. A. E., 1887.


Collection:
Hodge, Frederick Webb, Compiler. The Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico. Bureau of American Ethnology, Government Printing Office. 1906.

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