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As French [[missionaries]] worked in present-day Quebec and central-western New York with native peoples in the late 17th and early 18th century, they established mission villages for converted natives near the colonial towns of [[Quebec City]] and [[Montreal]]. The [[Abenaki]] who converted to [[Catholicism]] were allied with the French. Evidence supports the tradition that St. Francis was first occupied by the Sokoki (''Ozogwakiakas'' in Abenaki) as early as 1660, with as many as twenty families; the earliest Sokoki baptism recorded in the area was nearby in Trois-Rivières in 1658. The Sokoki were a band or tribe within the larger Abenaki group. Central [[Maine]] was formerly inhabited by people of the [[Androscoggin tribe]], also known as Arosaguntacook. The Androscoggin were a tribe in the [[Abenaki people|Abenaki nation]].
They were driven out of the area by Europeans in 1690 sometime after [[King Philip's War]] (1675-1676). They were relocated west at [[Saint-François-du-Lac, Quebec|St. Francis]], Canada. During the French and Indian War (the Seven Years' War), this settlement was [[St. Francis Raid|destroyed and burnt]] by [[Rogers Rangers|Rogers' Rangers]] in 1759. The Abenaki and some St. Francis residents participated in raids against English colonial settlements. These were sometimes organized by [[Sébastien
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