Watapacoson

Watapacoson, alias Joseph Spooner, a Nipmuck, was one of eleven Indians arrested on suspicion of murder at Lancaster in August 1675.  Captured by Samuel Moseley and sent to Boston later that month, he was found guilty of being an accessory and condemned by the court to be sold out of the country into slavery.  A possible son of his of the same name, six years old, of Marlborough, was put into service in the household of Benjamin Mills of Dedham by the Massachusetts General Court in 1676.  Bodge, Soldiers in King Philip’s War, 163.  Daniel Gookin, An historical account of the doings and sufferings of the Christian Indians in New England [1677], Transactions and Collections of the American Antiquarian Society, Vol. 2 (Cambridge, MA: Folson, Wells, and Thurston, 1836), 458.  New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. 8 (Boston: Samuel G. Drake, 1854), 272.