Nanauatauate (Felix)

Nanauatauate (Felix) was an Indian man, possibly from the Nipmuc community, who became the husband of John Sassamon's daughter Assowetough (Betty) and of another Indian woman named Abigail. He and Betty had a daughter named Mercy.  He possibly had another son Thomas from his wife Abigail.  In 1673 Felix received property in Marlborough, Massachusetts from Benjamin Tuspaquin, the father-in-law of their daughter Mercy.  He fought on the English side during King Philip's War and for that service received all of Sassamon's land holdings from the Governor of Plymouth Colony in 1679.  With his dying intestate, a legal battle between his two wives erupted between Betty and Abigail in 1703.  Records of the Colony of New Plymouth, 229. Bodge, Soldiers in King Philip's War, 81, 395.  Douglas-Lithgow, Dictionary of American Indian Place and Proper Names in New England, 315.  MA 113:437-8; 31:17.