The Merrimack River: its source and its tributaries. Embracing a history of manufactures, and of the towns along its course; their geography, topography, and products, with a description of the magnificent natural scenery about its upper waters./ By J. W. Meader.

TIIE 3IE-PDIMACK' RIVER;
John Harwood, and Robert Usher, all of Dunstable; Jacob Ful lam, of Weston; Jacob Farrar and Josiah Davis, of Concord;
Thomas Woods, Daniel Woods, and John Jefts, of Groton; Ichabod
Johnson, of Woburn; Jonathan Kittredge, of Billerica."
Col. Tyng also found an Indian grave, which he opened. It con tained among other bodies that of the dreaded Paugus.*
The scene of this battle, where the intrepid Lovewell and nearly
all his force were slain, was in the " Pequaquaukle country." These
Indians, made up of the remnants of the various tribes or bands of
the Pennacook confederacy, had located themselves upon the
branches of the Saco, where was an abundance of fish and game,
and, from the fact that their main village was Up)on the Saco, near
where that river makes a noted bend or circuit of some thirty-six
miles, principally in Fryeburg, Maine, returning within a mile or
two of the Indian village where it commenced its detour, were called
Pequaquaukes, or Indians at the crooked place, Pequaquaukes
being derived from the adjective ])equau(quis (crooked) and auke (a
place).
This name, thus received, was applied to the Indians of all that
region of country, and has ever since been applied to the region of
country itself. The Pequaquaukes were under the control of two
powerful sagamons, Paugus (the oak) and Wahowah (the broad
shouldered).
The Tyng family of Dunstable appear to have been leading and
prominent people for many years among the illustrious names of
that distinguished settlement. Previous to 1700, when a small
grant was made to Wonnalancet, that mild and amiable chieftain
was plalced under the charge of Mr. Jonathan'ITyngi, of Tyngsboro'.
This town is situated on both sides of the Merrimack, which is
here a broad and beautiful river. Having pursued a general southerly course since leaving old Lafayette, the Merrimack commences a
grand detour at this place, maintaining a remarkably regular trend,
and in the course of fifteen miles heads due east, and continues in
the same direction to the sea.
* "'Twas Pauyus led the Peqw'k't tribe;
As runs the fox, would Paugus run;
As howls the wild wolf, would he howl;
A huge bear-skiu had Paugus on."
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