Penakuk

The Penakuk were a loose network of allied Algonquian communities around the upper Merrimack River, including villages at Amoskeag Falls and present-day Concord. In the seventeenth century the sachem Passaconaway dealt with the English colonies while his children's marriages linked his people to the Pawtucket.

Disease and raids weakened the Penakuk, and King Philip's War of 1675–1676 drew in some of their communities despite the neutrality sought by Passaconaway's successor Wonalancet. After the war some captives were enslaved, while others fled toward the Hudson Valley and Quebec.