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Oskoosooduck, 1665 - 1752
Oskoosooduck was the daughter of Eastern Pequot sachem, Momoho. Growing up in Quakataug in present day Stonington, CT, her childhood was marked by a number of illnesses, the most severe of which, in 1672, left her, as well as, her siblings and mother near death. She regained her health and as a young woman married and became the fifth wife of Narragansett sachem Ninigret II, by whom she had two sons, Charles and George.
Ralph, John
John Ralph, an Indian from the Potenummecut community, was a prominent figure in the religious and political affairs of the tribe.
Robbins, Samuel (Wangunk/Tunxis)
Samuel Robbins was one of the descendant of the early Wangunk leader and healer, Robin, who had removed from the Wangunk reservation in the mid-eighteenth century. His wife was named Moll. Their daughter Ann (d. 1785) married Aaron Occom, (c.
Meazon, Sarah (Hartford), 1724 - 1821
Sarah Meazon was born circa 1724, the daughter of Abigail Meazon, presumably on or near the Mashantucket lands. While there is very little known about the majority her life, especially the early years, it is presumed that she married, at some point, a man with the surname of Nannapoom. According to a petition to the Connecticut General Assembly submitted by the Selectmen of the Town of Hartford, Sarah came to the town on February 12, 1815, fell ill and remained so until her death
Meazon, Abigail, - 1772
On September 9, 1772, Abigail Meazon, an itinerant Pequot Indian woman, a resident of Farmington, Connecticut, appeared in Northampton, Massachusetts at the doorstep of Nathaniel Day and his wife, Experience, with a growing temperature. The Days recognized the symptoms as “slow fever” or typhoid, a bacterial illness caused by ingesting contaminated water or food, which in the eighteenth century could sometimes be fatal, and took Abigail in.
Nannapoom
Dead by 1774, Nannapoom was a Mohegan whose widow was living at Mohegan at that year. She was considered as being a non-Mohegan by Zachary Johnson.