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Susquehannock Now only Hist.|sʌskwəˈhænək|
Forms: 7 Sasquehanno, Sasquesahanock, -hanough, Sesquesahamock, 8 Susquehannah, 9 Susquehanno, Susquehanough; Susquehanna, etc.
[a. the name of this people in a neighbouring Algonquian language, lit. ‘person (or people) of the Susquehanna River’: the river flows from N.Y. State into Chesapeake Bay.]
= Conestoga 1. Also attrib.
1612J. Smith Map of Virginia 8 To proceed, 60 of those Sasquesahanocks, came to the discouerers with skins, bowes..and tobacco pipes for presents. Ibid., The description of a Sasquesahanough. Ibid. 19 The people differ very much in stature,..some being very great as the Sesquesahamocks, others very little, as the Wighcocomocoes. 1676Rec. Court of New Castle on Delaware (1904) 39 If the Sasquehannos should aply to you for anything, you are to use them kindly. 1751in New Jersey Archives (1883) 1st Ser. VII. 598 The Susquahannah Indians only want leave from the Mohawks whom they call their Fathers in order to their accepting of a missionary. 1833S. Kercheval Hist. Valley of Virginia p. xxiv, He ran amongst his men, crying out..these are our friends the Susquehanoughs. 1845Encycl. Metrop. XXV. 937/2 Thus Maryland was inhabited by the Susquehannoes, who were afterwards destroyed by the Iroquois assisted by four nations. 1898Contrib. Indian Hist. Lower Susquehanna Valley (Hist. Soc. Dauphin County, Pa.) 39 Prior to 1600, but how long before is not known, the Susquehannocks were seated upon the river from which they have derived their name. 1910Encycl. Brit. VI. 897/2 Conestoga, a tribe of North American Indians of Iroquoian stock... They were sometimes known as Susquehannas... The tribe suffered final extinction in the Indian wars of 1763. 1915J. Buchan Salute to Adventurers v. 79, I was with Bacon in '76, in the fray with the Susquehannocks. I speak the Indian tongues. 1940T. W. Clarke Bloody Mohawk 36 The Iroquois, about 1660, turned their attention to the Andastes, or Susquehannocks of Pennsylvania and southern New York. 1957Encycl. Brit. XII. 683/2 The Iroquoian family occupied three territories, a northern, southern, and southeastern. In the northern area there lived, besides the Iroquois proper, the Conestoga or Susquehanna in Pennsylvania. 1978Handbk. N. Amer. Indians XV. 363/1 The term Sasquesahanough (Susquehannock) was first recited to Capt. John Smith by his Algonquian-speaking interpreter when he was visited by 60 Susquehannocks in 1608. 1978J. A. Michener Chesapeake i. 4 The common warriors..felt that for a Susquehannock to pass more than a year in peace would be disgraceful. Ibid. 6 He would have to pass two Susquehannock villages to the south. |