Historic Native American tribe in Massachusetts, USA
Detail from Sidney Perley's 1912 collection of original Essex County, Massachusetts Indian deeds showing his estimate of precontact Naumkeag territory based on the towns receiving their deeds from Naumkeag descendants. Note that this map does not include Naumkeag territories to the west and south in Middlesex and Suffolk counties.
Naumkeag is a historical tribe of Eastern Algonquian-speaking Native American people who lived in northeastern Massachusetts. They controlled most of the territory from the Charles River to the Merrimack River at the time of the Puritan migration to New England (1620–1640).
Naumkeag is also the term for a Native American settlement at the time of English colonization in present-day Salem, Massachusetts, meaning "fishing place," from namaas (fish), ki (place) and age (at)[1] or by another translation "eel-land."[2] However, the settlement Naumkeag was only one of a group of politically connected settlements in the early 1600s under the control of the sachem Nanepashemet and his wife the Squaw Sachem and their descendants. Although referred to in this article as Naumkeag, confusion exists about the proper contemporary endonym for this people, who are variously referred to in European documents as Naumkeag, Pawtucket, Penticut, Mystic, or Wamesit, or by the name of their current sachem or sagamore.[3]
^Perley, Sidney (1912). The Indian land titles of Essex County, Massachusetts. Salem: Essex Book and Print Club. pp. 8–12. Retrieved 2008-12-11.
^Douglas-Lithgow, R. A. (1909). Dictionary of American-Indian Place and Proper Names in New England. Salem, Massachusetts: Salem Press. p. 132.
^Lepionka, Mary Ellen (2018-03-28). "CHAPTER 1 What do our Algonquian place names really mean?". Native Americans of Cape Ann. Retrieved 23 October 2021.
Naumkeag is a historical tribe of Eastern Algonquian-speaking Native American people who lived in northeastern Massachusetts. They controlled most of the...
are variously referred to in European documents as Pawtucket, Pentucket, Naumkeag, Wamesit, or Mystic Indians, or by the name of their current sachem or...
Rumney Marsh was a Native American leader who was the Sachem of the Naumkeagpeople when English began to settle in the area. Wenepoykin was born in 1616...
present-day Chelsea, Massachusetts), Saugus or Swampscott (Lynn), Naumkeag (Salem) (see Naumkeagpeople), Agawam (Ipswich), Pentucket (Haverhill), from the coast...
designed and developed for the Turners. Afternoon Garden, Naumkeag Chinese Garden, Naumkeag Design in the little garden, Boston, The Atlantic Monthly...
Rumney Marsh, was the successor to whom Wenepoykin, sachem of the Naumkeagpeople, willed his territories in modern day northeastern Massachusetts at...
Middleton, and from there to the Danvers River, which was the border with the Naumkeag tribe (near where Salem, Massachusetts developed). Varieties of the English...
descendants moved to the praying towns of Wamesit and Natick. Agawam Nashua Naumkeag Pawtucket, merged into the Pennacook Pentucket Wachuset Wamesit Weshacum...
with the first settling in Wonnisquam in 1623 and later expanding to Naumkeag in Pawtucket territory. In 1628, the Massachusetts Bay Colony was legally...
Brearley School, which was founded by her mother. Her family summered at Naumkeag, their “summer cottage” on Prospect Hill in Stockbridge, Massachusetts...
of England. 1626 – Founding of Salem, Massachusetts (originally called "Naumkeag"). Peter Minuit purchases Manhattan. 1627 – George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore...
Wampanoag (/ˈwɑːmpənɔːɡ/), also rendered Wôpanâak, are a Native American people of the Northeastern Woodlands currently based in southeastern Massachusetts...
Wachusett. His daughter Wanunchus married Montowampate, a sagamore of the Naumkeag in Saugus, who lived north of what is now Boston (their marriage was the...
settlement a little further south at what is now Salem, near the village of the Naumkeag tribe. Archbishop William Laud was a favorite advisor of King Charles I...
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