Suckiog

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Agreement between Uncas and Arramanet (Copy 2)

Digital Heritage
Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Tunxis
Category
Geography, Land, & the Environment, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty
Summary
Second copy of Treaty between the Mohegans and the Connecticut River Indian tribes that establish political relations and boundary lines (with minor variations from Copy 1)

Sowheage, - 1649

Son of the grandsachem Altarbaenhoot, Sowheage was sachem of the Wangunk, Mattabesecs, and the Connecticut River Indians in the early seventeenth century.  Marriages to several women from neighboring tribes formed a cohesive alliance of Connecticut River and Southwestern Connecticut shoreline tribes.  His eldest son was Sequassen, sachem of Suckiog; his eldest daughter was Warwarme (Wawaloam), one of the wives of Miantonomo.  His other children were Sepunnamo, Seacut, Turramuggus, Monotwese, and Wesumpsha.

Sequassen

Born into a powerful Wangunk family, Sequassen (Souwonckquasin/Wussooankquassin) was the eldest son of Sowheag and the grandson of Atlarbaenhoot.  He served as his father's diplomat to the Dutch and English. At the time of the arrival of the English into Connecticut, Sequassen ruled as the sachem of the River Indians whose principal village was at Suckiaug ("black earth"), present-day Hartford.  The River Tribes of Tunxis and Massaco were under his political authority.
 

Kipoquam

In 1647, Kipoquam was among those post-war Pequots asking to be placed under English jurisdiction, although his age at this time in unclear.  Consequently, he may have been a survivor of the Pequot War.  His presence among the Suckiog and Tunxis suggests a familial or clan-based connection to those tribes, especially among its ruling families.  His name appears on a deed to Matetacoke in 1657, a confirmatory deed by Sequassen’s heirs in 1670, and a Tunxis petition in 1672.  In 1705 an Indian with the same name living at Pattaconk on the south side of Thirty Mile Isl