biography
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| lived:
| (?1590–?1653)
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| biography:
| Pemaquid diplomat, born on Monhegan I in present-day Maine, USA. He had learned some English from British fishermen who had worked off the coast of Maine. Thus it was that he was able to say ‘Welcome, Englishmen!’ when he greeted the Pilgrims at Plymouth (Mar 1621). He then arranged a meeting with them and Squanto and the Wamponoag chief Massasoit, and he fostered friendship between the two groups. In 1625 he signed the first deed of land transfer with the whites and signed another in 1653. After that he disappears from the historical record. |
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