Dawnland Time Line - 1600 to 1674 at Ne-Do-Ba

Period Summary - The Wabanaki & Europeans share knowledge and compete for resources. European diseases spread throughout the Dawnland.

"They are astonished and often complain that, since the French mingle with them and carry on trade with them, they are dying fast, and the population is thinning out" - Father Biard

A Table of Events Affecting Wabanaki People
for the period 1600 to 1674
with links to additional information
Date	Event	Location	Notes
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1605	Capt. Weymouth kidnaps 5 Abenaki	Coast of Maine
1605	French Settlement	Port Royal, NS
1607	English Settlement	Popham ME	abandoned following year
1615	Hostility between Mi'kmaq & Abenaki	Gulf of Maine
1616-1619	Epidemic	Northeast	"The Great Dying" estimated 70-90% of the Native population die from European disease
1620-30	European Settlement Begins	Gulf of Maine
1629	Trading Houses Established	Cushnoc & Penobscot Bay
1633	Smallpox Epidemic	Northeast	John Oldham travels to upper Conn. River - smallpox breaks out there shortly after and spreads throughout the land
1646	Expedition	ME & NH	Darby Field travels up the Saco River, the first known white man to visited Pigwacket Village & Mt. Washington
1646	Epidemic	Maine	outbreak among Maine Abenaki of "Bloody Vomiting"
1650-60's	Iroquois Raids on Wabanaki	Maine
16660s	Land Sale	ME & NH	Natives deed lands on Ossipee River to white men
1669	Smallpox Epidemic	St. Lawrence River Canada
abt 1671	Jean Crevier settles Odanak Region	Quebec Canada	Abenaki trade with him