#nashaway

Nipmuc. In 1701 Mary Annocamug (also seen as Annoscamig) found her homeplace at Nashaway or Nashua, including and beyond the place that is now more commonly called “Lancaster, Massachusetts.” Mary’s mark appears on this document, dated 1701, for land exchanged for various small sums of money from multiple settlers.

Mary was perhaps kin to Anookamaug or Anogomog, once Sachem of Wombemesisecoc (areas now including “Palmer” and “Ware, Massachusetts), whose mark we shared previously from a document dated 1686 for those lands near Quaboag.

Mary’s mark appears on this document just below the Mark of George Tahanto (whose mark we have also shared previously). Signed June 26, 1701. A copy of the original, seen at the American Antiquarian Society.

Tohanto his marke

Nipmuc. Tohanto (also spelled Tahanto, and also known as George Tahanto) found his homeplaces in Nashaway territory, near Lancaster, Massachusetts and along the Nashua river from northern parts of so-called Central Massachusetts into southern so-called New Hampshire.

This document, signed October 15, 1668 bears Tohanto’s mark on a warrant for the arrest of a settler accused of participating in distributing alcohol to Natives.