Wamesit  
Wamesit, meaning "meeting place," was an eastern Abenaki or Wôbanaki village in Pawtucket territory, set aside as a praying village in the 1660s, under the guidance of the English missionary John Eliot. In 1675, soldiers from Massachusetts Bay Colony burned the village, and the Wamesit Indians relocated to Pennacook, Odanak or St. Francis, and other points north.

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