Nashawhonan , - 1654

Nashawhonan (Sholan) was the leader of the Nashaway and had his residence on a slight elevation between the two Waushacum Lakes.  A frequent visitor to Thomas King's trading post at Watertown, he encouraged the Englishman to remove to the Nashua Valley.  Accordingly, in 1643, he sold an eighty-mile square tract of land to King and others of the Nashaway Company.  After his death in the late fall of 1654, Sholan was succeeded in office by his nephew Matthew.  He was survived by another nephew, George Tahanto.

Henry S. Nourse, Lancastriana (Clinton, MA: Press of W. J. Coulter, 1900), 7.  Connole, The Nipmuck Indians, 52. The Early Records of Lancaster, Massachusetts, 39, 139.