Koes

Koës was a French spelling of Cowass, an Abenaki village on the upper Connecticut River. The surrounding country was known for its white pines, from which the Cowasuck people took their name. The river linked their homeland with communities farther north and south. During the wars of the early eighteenth century the village was abandoned, and a French map of 1713 marked it as an old settlement. Peace could bring people back to familiar places, even after warfare had dispersed their inhabitants.