Androscoggin; Amanoscoggin, Amarascoggin, Amascoggin, Amonoscoggin

   Among the Abenakis, there is a difference between the easterners and the westerners. The easterners, who actually differ very little from the Passamaquoddies and the Maliseets, include the Amarascoggins, Kennebecs, and Penobscots of Maine. Westerners include the Penacooks and the Winnipesaukees of the upper Merrimack; Sokokis (known to the British as Squakhaegs) and Cowasucks on the middle and upper Connecticut; and the Mazipskoiàk (Missisquoi) and others on the rivers of western Vermont. It is not clear whether or not the Pigwackets, of the upper Saco River, were westerners or easterners. Culturally, the westerners did more in the way of farming than did the easterners, who, for their part, devoted more attention to the use of coastal resources. Linguistically, westerners and easterners spoke different dialects of Abenaki language. [1]

   Androscoggin: Abenaki inhabitants of the Androscoggin River drainage. Also referred to as Arosaguntacook (by some writers) and Amariscoggin. The name Aronsaguntacook was often applied to the St. Francis Indians.[2]

   "Eastern Indians" as misrepresented in the English colonial records were Eastern Abenaki groups of Kennebecs, Androscoggins and Penobscots, located along the river valleys and river courses. During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, these people were pressured westward, toward their western relatives in Vermont and Quebec, from the south and east by the expanding settlements of English colonials.[3]

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Androscoggin were an Algonquian tribe who was a sub-tribe of the Abenaki who lived in what now are Maine and New Hampshire. It is assumed that by the 18th century, they had been absorbed by neighboring tribe.

Name

Arosaguntacook or Arossagunticook, the tribe's endonym, in the eastern Abenaki language means "Rocky Flats flow" or "a river of rocks refuge." Other recorded variations of the name are Amariscoggin, Ameriscoggin, Asschincantecook, Arossagunticook, Alessikantek-eyak by the Penobscot and the Cowasuck. The name Arosaguntacook was probably change by Massachusetts Governor Edmund Andros to Androscoggin. Today's Penobscot name for the Saint Francis Abenaki is Alessikantek-eyak because Arossaguntacook belonged to the ancestors of the people of Saint Francis.

Distribution

The Arosaguntacook once lived in the Androscoggin River watershed, located in present-day southern Maine and northern New Hampshire. Their main village was located in the vicinity of present-day Lewiston. Together with the Pigwacket, they formed the southern-most of the Abenaki tribes, and were therefore one the first in contact with the English colonists of New England.

History

In 1675, the Androscoggin took part in King Philip's War. Metallak was member of Androscoggin tribe.

Reference

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[1] pg 157 At The Dawn Of Recorded History, William A. Haviland and Marjory W. Power,  “The Original Vermonters” Native Inhabitants Past and Present. University of Vermont, 1994

[2] pg 301 Glossary of Indian Groups and Communities. Colin G. Calloway “The Western Abenaki of Vermont 1600-1800”, “War, Migration and the Survival of an Indian People”. Norman, 1990, University of Oklahoma Press

[3] pg15 The Green Mountain Frontier. Colin G. Calloway “The Western Abenaki of Vermont 1600-1800”, “War, Migration and the Survival of an Indian People”. Norman, 1990, University of Oklahoma Press.
 

Benjamin Church 1690 - Document 5 - Other Accounts
From Williamson, Vol. 1, Page 625

Major Church, the next day proceeded with his men, forty miles up the Androscoggin, to the Indian fort, where he recovered seven captives, killed twenty-one of the enemy, and took one prisoner. After plundering the fort, which contained some valuable property, he left it in flames. His prisoner was Agamcus, called from his size Great Tom...
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From Cotton Mathers' Magnalia Christi Americana, Book VII, Vol. 2, Page 528

...They marched away for Amonoscoggin fort, which was about forty miles up the river; and wading through many difficulties, whereof one was a branch of the river it self; they met with four or five salvages going to their fort with two English prisoners. They sav'd the prisoners, but could not catch the savages; however, on the Lord's day they got up to the fort undiscovered, where, to their sorrowful disappointment, they found no more than one and twenty of the enemy, whereof they took and slew twenty. They found some considerable store of plunder, and rescued five English captives, and laid the fort in ashes; but one disaster they much complained of, the captain of the fort, whose name was Agamcus, alias, Great Tom, slipt away from the hands of his too careless keepers... more.
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From Plimouth Sept. 22. We have an Account that on Friday the
12th Instant, in the night, our Forces Landing privately, forthwith
surrounded Pegypscot Fort; but finding no Indians there, they March'd
to Amonoscoggin. There on the Lords-day, they kill'd and took 15 or
16 of the Enemy, and recovered five English Captives mostly belonging
to Oyster-River; who advised, that the men had been gone about ten
days down to a River, to meet with the French, and the French In-
dians; where they expected to make up a Body of 300 men, and design
first against Wells or Piscataqua.... more