#matwatacka

The marke of Sam Hary alias Matwatacka.

Wampanoag, their homelands presumably at Nemasket and Assawompset (in the areas today called “Middleboro” and “Lakeville, Massachusetts”)

This document, identified as the last will and testament of Pamontaquask the pond sachem asserts that it was Pomontaquask’s desire that all the lands “at Assawamsett or elsewhere…” be transferred to “....tuspaquin alias the Black Sachem” and after tuspaquin’s death, onto “Soquontamouk alias William his son…” 

Matwatacka, like several of the other signers of this document, is not mentioned in the text. As we mentioned in a previous post about the pictograph of Poemphut who also signed this document, it’s assumed that Matwatacka had ties to Tuspaquin (who does not sign this document).  After Pamontaquask’s death, Tuspaquin becomes sachem at Nemasket, and is married to Amie, daughter of Osamequin.