Note 4 — INTRODUCTION

Norridgewock, Nalα´djəwak, “Rapids up the river” (Penobscot); Nawαdzwa´ki (St. Francis Abenaki); Nawi´·djəwak (Malecite), Nashwaak River, N. B.; and also what may be evidently another form of the name Newichewanock in New Hampshire. The proper name for the band is Nalαdjwa´kiak (Penobscot), Nawαdzəwakia´k (St. Francis). A. E. Kendall (Travels through the Northern Parts of the United States in 1807-8, Vol. III, N. Y., 1809) gives the term as “Nanrantawacs” (p. 52), which he says implies “still water between two places at which the current is rapid.” J. D. Prince (Some Passamaquoddy Documents, Annals New York Academy of Science, XI, no. 15, 1898, p. 376) translates nanrantsouack as “stretch of still water.”