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 โHampshire County [Massachusetts].โ
Konkapot fought on the side of the British as a captain in King Georgeโs 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).
The original document signed on June 2, 1737. Seen at Sawyer Library, Williams College.
