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Position:Home>Genealogy> Why were the Penobscot called Tarrentines?Question: Why were the Penobscot called Tarrentines?Penobscot are Native Indians of Maine. The name Tarrentines may be mispelled, could be Tarentines. Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: There is a clue at http://www.lakesregionofmaine.gen.me.us/... "The Tarrentines (from a Basque word implying traders)..." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/tarrantine... From-http://www.davistownmuseum.org/infoeaste... "In the nineteenth century the term Tarrantine, a seventeenth-century English name for the Micmac, was revived (as Tarratine) and erroneously applied to the Penobscot (Siebert 1973). Various other obscure and confusing identifications also exist, usually as single instances." |