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Tisquantum (better known as Squanto) (c. 1580s – November 1622) was one of two Native American Indians (Samosef being the other) that assisted the Separatists after their first winter in the Ne w World. He was aa member of the Patuxet tribe, a subtribe of the Wampanoag Confederacy.
Biography
George Weymouth was an English captain who explored the area now known as the state of Maine. During the course of the exploration in 1605, he and his men captured some indigenous people to show to his sponsor, as evidence of his exploratory work. The names of the natives were: Manida, Skidwarres/Skettawarroes, Nahanada/Dehanada, Assacumet and Tisquantum. They were turned over to Weymouth’s superior, Sir Ferdinando Gorges. It is then thought that Tisquantum was trained in English to be a translator in New England. He returned to North America in 1612 with Captain John Smith, who after some service time released him to walk home to his village.
On his way back to his tribe in 1614, Tisquantum was kidnapped by another Englishman, Thomas Hunt. Hunt was one of John Smith’s lieutenants. Hunt was planning to sell fish, corn, and captured slaves in Málaga, Spain. Hunt attempted to sell Tisquantum and a number of other Native Americans into slavery for £20 apiece.
Sir Ferdinando Gorges, in A Brief Relation of the Discovery and Plantation of New England (London, 1622) wrote that some local friars, however, discovered what Hunt was attempting and took the remaining Indians, Tisquantum included, in order to instruct them in the Christian faith. Eventually, Tisquantum escaped to London, living with a John Slany for a few years, and then went to Cuper’s Cove, Newfoundland. Attempting to avoid the walk from Newfoundland to his home village, Tisquantum tried to take part in an expedition to that part of the North American east coast. He returned to England in 1618, however, when that plan fell through.
He returned once more to his homeland in 1619, making his way with an exploratory expedition along the New England coast. He was soon to discover that his tribe, the Patuxet, as well as a majority of coastal New England tribes (mostly Wampanoag and Massachusett), had been decimated the year before by a plague, possibly smallpox.
Tisquantum finally settled with the Separatists at the site of his former village and helped them recover from their first difficult winter by teaching them to increase their food production by fertilizing their crops, and by directing them to the best places to catch fish and eels.
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