The marke of Peceunckcus cheif counseler [sic]
Likely Wampanoag, of Pocasset. Identified on this deed, signed in June of 1660 as “chief counseler” for Namumpum (Weetamoo) and Quiquequonnechog, her then partner.
The document describes terms for settler access to land, and includes place names for lands at and beyond present-day Little Compton, Rhode Island. Some place names are spelled here as they appear (or as well as I can decipher), and described as: “...a certain necke of land commonly called by ye name of Panaquaquit, popochocksset … chechoesit, wonascotucket, [and] womposcocinnat…”
We have been hard pressed to find further information about Peceunckcus, beyond what can be inferred from the document itself.
Dated June 1660, seen at the Massachusetts Historical Society.
