The Algonquian
CockenoeMany native captives of the Pequot War were brought to Boston to be sold into slavery. One of these native captives was a young Montauk man from Long Island named Cockenoe... [read more] |
HiacoomesThe first native person to convert to Christianity in New England was Hiacoomes, a Wampanoag from the island of Martha’s Vineyard... [read more] |
Job NesutonJob Nesuton was a Massachuset Indian who likely first met John Eliot in 1646, when Eliot began preaching to the Indians at Nonantum (in present-day Newton, Massachusetts)... [read more] |
James Printer (Wowaus)Nipmuc Indian Wowaus was likely born at Hassanamesit in present-day Grafton, Massachusetts... [read more] |
John SassamonDuring the Pequot War, John Sassamon, a Massachuset Indian, served as an interpreter for the English... [read more] |