Abenaki Village.
The Arosaguntacook people, also known as Androscoggin, Amoscoggin, and other variations, were a tribe of the Abnaki Confederacy.
They formerly lived in the Androscoggin River watershed in present-day southern Maine and northern New Hampshire. Their primary village was located in Androscoggin County, Maine, in a village that bore the same name as the Androscoggin River. Together with the Pequawket, they formed the southernmost part of the Abenaki tribes and were therefore among the first to come into contact with English colonists in New England. Living on the edge of the first English settlements in Maine, they participated in King Philip’s War in 1675.
They were later removed to St. Francis, Canada, soon after the Abnaki were defeated in the Battle of Pequawket at present-day Fryeburg, Maine, in 1725. By the 18th century, they were assumed to have been absorbed by neighboring tribes.
© Kathy Weiser-Alexander/Legends of America, updated September 2026.
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