#konkapot

John Popnehonnowwah alias Kunkapot his mark and seal

Mohican. Pophnehonnuhwoh, later known as Konkapot, was Sachem of the Mohican, residing on homelands that stretched across parts of the places known today as Western Massachusetts and Eastern New York.

This document details a conveyance of land along the Housatonic River in Mohican homelands in what is identified in the document as “Hampshire County [Massachusetts].”

Konkapot fought on the side of the British as a captain in King George’s War, was instrumental in transitioning his community to the Christian mission at Stockbridge, and died a generation or so before the Mohican were removed to New York (then to Wisconsin).

Sauseekhoot his Mark & Seal

Mohican. Identified in this document with others as “Indian Planters” of Housatunnock [sic], their homelands in and around the areas known commonly today as “Berkshire County,” parts of “Hampshire County, Massachusetts,” and beyond. This document conveys land which includes what is today called Monterey, Massachusetts, and is bounded on the east by the Farmington River and on the west by so-called Sheffield, Massachusetts, on the Housatonic River.

Sauseekhoot’s mark appears alongside the marks of several others, including John Pophnehonawah or Konkapot, Sachem of the Mohican through the early to mid 18th century.