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From "The Aboriginal" Dec. 1882 (Pub. in St. John's N.B.) (1)
The Last Battle between the Mohawks and Penobscots" Related by a Passamaquoddy.
(Says the Quoddys not an old tribe but formed about date of capture of Quebec by the British out "of Indians the Penobscots & another tribe of Maine, Amiticats [?] of New Brunswick & red [?] Abenakis of Quebec"
"Some fifty years before the formation of this tribe, a decisive battle was fought between the Penobscots & Mohawks 3 or 4 small parties of Penobscots were caught on a hunting expedition up river, As far as Lake Chesuncook & were then surprized by Mohawks from Caughnawake (Nr. Montreal) [Kahnawake] who came on snow shoes