Pocomtuc

The Pocomtuc were an Indigenous people of western Massachusetts, with a fortified settlement at present-day Deerfield in the Connecticut River valley.

War with the Mohawk fractured their power in 1664. During King Philip's War, Pocomtuc warriors and their allies ambushed an English militia convoy at Bloody Brook in 1675. Many later fled with other refugees to Schaghticoke on the Hudson; by 1754 most joined the Abenaki at Saint-François-du-Lac or moved farther west.