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The Nipmuc or Nipmuck people are descendants of the indigenous Algonquian peoples of Nippenet ‘the freshwater pond place’ which corresponds to central Massachusetts and immediately adjacent portions of Connecticut and Rhode Island. The tribe were first encountered by Europeans in 1630 when John Acquittamaug arrived with maize to sell to the starving colonists of Boston Massachusetts.The colonists introduced pathogens such as smallpox to which the Indians had no prior exposure.

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