#17c

the mark of wagésuk

Nipmuc, of Wabbaquasset, Chaubunagungamaug or Magunkaquog.

This document, signed by Wagesuk, Wuttasacomponom, Job Kattenanit and others, reports to be submitted on behalf of “...We the inhabitants of Quanutusset, Mônuhchogok, Chaubunakongkomuk, Asukodnôcog, kesepusqus, wabuhqushish and the adjacent parts of Nipmuk…”It pledges the submission of  inhabitants of those praying towns to the government of Massachusetts. It’s signed in 1668, a little less than a decade before the War would begin and at a time where tensions were high between Nipmuc and Mohawk tribal communities. 

Katherine Knyvett, Countess of Sussex by Paul van Somer

Hans Ulrich Franck - The Horseman’s End, c. 1656

MUSIC ART WORDS: 1680

Henry Purcell, Dido and Aeneas: When I am laid in earth (1680)

Baciccio, Rinaldo and Armida (c. 1680)

Sachemus his mark

Presumably Wampanoag. Unfortunately, the top left portion of this land transfer document, and therefore much of the text, is missing from the Newberry Library’s copy. Another deed (also a later copy of an original) signed on the same date, complete but with different wording (so perhaps another land transfer facilitated by the same people on the same day) is part of the collection of the Sturgis Library (third slide). The Sturgis deed identifies Sachemus as the “Sachem of Satuckett” [sic] and the pictograph mark is the same. Here, Satuckett or Satucket is suggested to be the place now commonly referred to as “Dennis, Massachusetts.” Both signed December 3, 1663.