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ASSABAOCH ASSINIBOTN 



[B. A. B. 



by threats of attacks by the Enghsh, and 

 died ill his unhealthful hiding place 

 probably in 1623. (c. t. ) 



Assabaoch. A band, probably of the 

 Assiniboin or Chippewa, in the vicinity of 

 Kainv lake, Ontario, in 1874; pop. 152. — 

 Can.'ind. Rep., 85, 1875. 



Assacomoco. A village about 1610, 

 probably near Patuxent r., Md. (Pory 

 in Smith (1629), Virginia, ii, 63, repr. 

 1819 ) . The name is Algonquian and con- 

 tains the word comoco, 'house,' common 

 in names of Virginia settlements. 



Assacumbuit. An Abnaki ("Tarra- 

 tine") chief who appeared in history 

 about 1696. He was a faithful adherent 

 of the French and rendered important 

 aid to Iberville and Montigny in the re- 

 duction of Ft St Johns, N. B., Nov. 30, 

 1696. With two other chiefs and a few 

 French soldiers A ssacumlxiit attacked the 

 fort at Casco, Me., in 1703, then defended 

 by Capt. March, which was saved by the 

 timely arrival of an English vessel. He 

 assisted the French in 1704-5 in their 

 attempt to drive out the English who 

 had established themselves in Newfound- 

 land, and in 1706 visited France, where 

 he became knowni to Charlevoix and was 

 received by Louis XIV, w'ho knighted 

 him and presented him an elegant sword, 

 after boasting that he had slain with his 

 own hand 140 of the King's enemies in 

 New England (Penhallow, Ind. Wars, i, 

 40, 1824). Assacumbuit returned from 

 France in 1707 and in the following year 

 was present with the French in their at- 

 tack on Haverhill, Mass. From that time 

 until his death in 1727 nothing further in 

 regard to him is recorded. He is some- 

 times mentioned under the name Nes- 

 cambioviit, and in one instance as Old 

 Escambuit. (c. t. ) 



Assameekg. A village in 1698, proba- 

 bly near Dartmouth, Bristol co., Mass., in 

 Warapanoag territory. Mentioned in 

 connection with Acushnet and Assa- 

 wompset by Rawson and Dan forth (1698) 

 in Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., 1st s., x, 129-134, 

 1809. 



Assaomeck. A village of the Powhatan 

 confederacy, in 1608, situated about Al- 

 exandria, Va. — Smith (1629), Virginia, 

 I, map, repr. 1819. 



Assapan. A dictionary name for the 

 flying squirrel {Sciuropterus volucella), 

 spelt also assaphan, evidently cognate with 

 Chippewa IVsipim, Sauk and Fox a^se- 

 pan". 'raccoon.' (a. f. c. w. j. ) 



Assawompset. A village existing as late 

 as 1674 in Middleborough tp., Ply- 

 mouth CO., Mass, probably within Wam- 

 panoag territory. 



Assawampsit. — Rawson and Danforth (169S) in 

 Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., 1st s., x, 129-134, 1809. Assa- 

 ■wanupsit. — Ibid. Assoowamsoo. — Bourne (1674), 

 ibid., I, 198, ISOO. Assowamsett.— Records (1671) 

 quoted by Drake, Bk. Inds.,bk. 3, 20, 1848. 



Assegun (probably from Chippewa 

 WsJugun 'black bass.' — W. J.). A tradi- 

 tional tribe said to have occupied the 

 region about Mackinaw and Sault Ste Ma- 

 rie on the first coming of the Ottawa and 

 Chippewa, and to have been driven by 

 them southward through lower Michigan. 

 They are said, and apparently correctly, 

 to have been either connected with the 

 IMascoutin or identical with that tribe, 

 and to have made the bone deposits in 

 N.Michigan. See Mascoutin. (j. m. ) 

 Asseguns.— Schoolcraft, Ind. Tribes, VI, 202-4,1857. 

 Assigunaick,— Brinton, Lenape Legend, 228, 188.5. 

 Assigunaigs. — Schoolcraft, op. eit., I, 191, 1851. 

 Bone Indians. — Ibid., 307. 



Asseheholar, Asseola. See Osceola. 



Assilanapi ( ' yellow or green leaf tree ' ). 

 A former Creek town, probably on Yel- 

 lowleaf cr., a tributary of Coosa r., Ala. 

 There is a township of the same name in 

 the Creek Nation, Indian Ter. — Gatschet, 

 Creek Migr. Leg., i, 128, 1884. 



Arselarnaby.— H. R'. Ex. Doc. 276, 24th Cong., 250, 

 1836. Ossalonida.— Ibid., 325. 



Assi-luputski. See Black drinl-. 



Assiminebkon. By the treat}' of Prai- 

 rie du Chien in 1829 the Ottawa, Pota- 

 watomi, and Chippewa reserved "one 

 section at the village of the As-sim-in-eh- 

 Kon, or Paw-paw Grove." Probably a 

 Potawatomi village in Leeco., 111. — Prai- 

 rie du Chien treaty (1829) in U. S. Ind. 

 Treaties, 163, 1873. 



Assiminier. See Asimina. 



Assinapi (Chippewa: usVndpd, 'stone 

 person.'— W. J.). A people, mentioned 

 in the Walani 0/u»i (Brinton, Lenape, 190, 

 1885), with whom the Delawares fought 

 during their migration toward the e. 

 Assinipi. — Ratinesque, Am. Nations, i, 146, 1836. 



Assiniboin (Chippewa: u^slni 'stone,' 

 u^pirdu"! 'he cooks by roasting': 'one 

 who cooks by the use of stones.' — W. J. ). 

 A large Siouan trilie, originall)^ constitut- 

 ing a part of the Yanktonai. Their sepa- 

 ration from the parent stem, to judge by 

 the slight dialectal difference in the lan- 

 guage, could not have greatly preceded the 

 ai>i)eurance of the whites, but it must 

 have taken place before 1640, as the Jesuit 

 Relation for that year mentions the As- 

 siniboin as distinct. The Relation of 

 1658 places them in the vicinity of L. 

 Alimibeg, between L. Superior and Hud- 

 son bay. On Jefferys' map of 1762 this 

 name is applied to L. Nipigon, and on 

 De r Isle's map of 1703 to Rainy lake. 

 From a tradition found in the widely 

 scattered bodies of the tribe and heard 

 by the first Europeans who visited the 

 Dakota, the Assiniboin appear to have 

 separated from their ancestral stem while 

 the latter resided somewhere in the region 

 about the headwaters of the Mississippi, 

 whence they moved northward and joined 

 the Cree. It is probable that they first 

 settled about Lake of the Woods, then 



