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.
The original document signed on June 2, 1737. This is a later copy. Seen at Sawyer Library, Williams College.
