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Known to Indians as Asquamchumauke, the nearby river was renamed for Lt. Thomas Baker (1682-1753), whose company of 34 scouts from Northampton, Mass., passed down this valley in 1712. A few miles south, his men destroyed a Pemigewasset Indian village. Massachusetts rewarded the expedition with a scalp bounty of £40 and made Baker a captain.
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