Muckamug, Peter, - 1740

Peter Muckamug was a member of or related to the Narragansett community.  As a child, he worked as an indentured servant in a white household in or near Providence, Rhode Island.  With his wife, Sarah Robbins, he had at least two children, George and Sarah.  When land rights at Hassanamisco became available in 1729, he and Sarah were allotted one hundred acres.  Peter Muckamug died at Hassamisco in 1740.  Daniel R. Mandell, "The Saga of Sarah Muckamugg, Indian and African American Intermarriage in Colonial New England," in Martha Hodes, ed., Sex, Love, Race: Crossing Boundaries in North American History (New York, NY: New York University Press, 1999), 72-90.