Eastern Indian
17th and 18th century English colonists generally called coastal Wôbanakiak (Penobscot and Passamaquoddy) and their near inland neighbors (Pawtucket, Pennacook, Pequawket) "Eastern Indians." Wôbanakiak in present-day Vermont and New Hampshire were often called "Western Indians." During the 1704 attack on Deerfield, Deerfield's minister, John Williams, made a distinction between "Eastern Indians" (meaning Pennacook), and "Indians" (meaning Native peoples from the Connecticut Valley, Vermont, and the village of Odanak or St. Francis, in Canada).