The Pennacook and Wannalancet’s impact to Tyngsborough and/or wider region:
- Wannalancet gave some land to John Tyng, at around 1686, which would include parts of Massachusetts near the Merrimack River that eventually trailed to parts of Tyngsborough, Lowell and Tewksbury.
- Part of the land of Dunstable, around, where according to author John Pendergast, where the colonials had taken the land during the events of King Philip’s War, “was the largest single taking of land in colonial history up to its time” (Pendergast 69).
- This piece of land encompassed, again, parts of Tyngsborough, Dracut, Lowell in Massachusetts, and Nashua, Hudson, and Hollis in New Hampshire.
- This meant that Wannalancet, and the Pennacook resided in parts of Massachusetts and New England, before many of the English settlers came and settled on it, most times forcefully taking it.
- In part, this led to Jonathan Tyng helping pave the way for the foundation of Tyngsborough.
