The Mark of Wutasakompanin.
Nipmuc. Also known as Captain Tom or Tom Wuttasacomponom. A Christian convert at Hassanamesit. Vowed loyalty to settlers during the First Indian War, or King Philip's War, but was still hung by colonizers in 1676 after accusations of being involved in the burnings of Sudbury and Medfield (which Wuttasacomponom denied).
This document, signed by Wuttasacomponom and others, reports to be submitted on behalf of “peoples of Nipmuck…the inhabitants of Quánutusset, Mônuhčhogok, Chaubunakongkomuk, Asukodnôcog, Kesépusqus, wabuhqushish and the adjacent parts of Nipmuk…” It pledges the submission of inhabitants of praying towns to the government of Massachusetts. It’s signed in 1668, a little less than a decade before the War would begin.
Below Wuttasacomponom’s mark is the signature of Job Kattenanit, brother of James Printer, whom we will write about at a later date.
Wuttasaompnoms kin: a son, Nehemiah Tom.
Seen at the Massachusetts State Archives.
