Why were the Penobscot called Tarrentines?

Question

Penobscot are Native Indians of Maine. The name Tarrentines may be mispelled, could be Tarentines.

Answer 1

There is a clue at
http://www.lakesregionofmaine.gen.me.us/sebago_anthro/faq_nq/sakamoseries/sakamoseries_2.html
"The Tarrentines (from a Basque word implying traders)..."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarrantine

From-http://www.davistownmuseum.org/InfoEasternAbenaki.html

"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."