174 WA-ft-EXOCK MYTH TEXTS FROM MAIXE [eth. asn. 43 



Thej- evidently played a considerable part in the Indian wars that 

 devastated southern Maine at this time, and in 1726, when the first 

 serious attempt was made by the Massachusetts government to 

 secure peace, the TTawenock receive freciuent mention in the records 

 of the proceedings. At the treaty of Falmouth, Casco Bay, in 1726, 

 before Gov. W. Dummer, of Massachusetts, "Wenemovet answered 

 that they had full power to act for them (the Norridgewock) and for 

 the Wewenocks and for the 'Arresuguntenocks ' and (St.) Frangois." ^ 



In speaking of Governor Dummer's treaty, the "Norridgwocks, 

 St. Francois, and Wowenock Indians" are again mentioned as being 

 in Canada, whither the bulk of the allies must have moved by this 

 year (1726).^^ Also Loron,^' a Penobscot chief, explained to the 

 Governor how he was entitled to make peace for the "Norrigwock, 

 St. Frangois, and Wowenocks," who were not present at the treaty, 

 by reason of having received a wampum belt from them empowering 

 the Penobscot to speak in their behalf.^" Loron also said that the 

 Norridgewock Indians were scattered among the "Arresaguntecook" 

 Wewonock or St. Frangois tribes.^' It is interesting to observe the 

 names of some of the native treaty delegates in these accounts 

 because some of them have survived in the tribe until the present day, 

 as we shall see later. They also have some ethnological value. It 

 seems that, owing to the absence of some of the tribes from the occa- 

 sion of the first treaty in 1726, it became necessary to hold another 

 the following year to ratify it. ^Accordingly in the conference of 

 that year (1727) held again at Falmouth, the following sachems sub- 

 scribed to the ratification of the treaty made through the Penobscot 

 in the year preceding. "Toxeus,'^ Sagamore of Nerridgawock, 

 Ausummowett,^^ Sagamore of Arresaguntacook, Woosszurraboonet,^* 

 Sagamore of Wowenock" are mentioned.^* Later again we learn of 

 "Memmadgeen and. Woosszaurraboonet, Captains and Councillors, 

 two of the chiefs of the Wowenock Tribe and delegated by them, 

 accompanied bj'^ Auwemmonett, the chief sachem's son, Wenerramett, 

 Paterramett,'^ Saawerramet, Quinoise,^" chiefs and others of the said 

 tribe of Wowenock." The conference was attended by "40 Nerridga- 



'• Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., 4tli ser., Vol. V, 3.53 (1S6I). 



!« Ibid., p. 365. 



^^ This is from the French Laurent, its Indian form being Lola among the St. Francis and Penobscot, 

 where it is still a family surname. 



» Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., 4th ser., Vol. V (1861), pp. 386, 387. 



31 Ibid., p. 390. 



^' Tosus (Taksu's) was until lately represented among the family patronyms of the St. Francis people. 



33 This name may be the same as Was^memct, Wasawanemet, which still survives as a family name at 

 St. Francis, where it is thought to mean, "He talks against some one." 



3< For a supposition as to the later identity ol the name among the Wawenock themselves, see p. 176 of 

 this paper. 



3« Maine Hist. Soc. Coll., vol. m (1853), p. 411. 



3fi See also p. 176. 



" Maine Hist. Soc Coll., vol m (I8.')31, p. 412. Possibly the French rendering of Kwun'a'waS, 

 "Long Hair." a per.Tonal name in Penobscot mythology (F. G. Speck, Penobscot Transformer Texts, 

 International Joui'nal of American Linguistics, vol. 1, no. 3, 1918, p. 188). 



