Tahattawan
Descended from a prominent Native family line, Tahattawan (also known as Tahattawarre, Tahatawants, Attawance, Ahattawance, and Nattahattawance) was Sachem of the Musketaquid with his chief place of residence at Nashobah. His connection to the tribe’s SquaSachem is currently unknown, but they both lived at or near the foot of Nashawtuck Hill. Tahattawan had one son, John, and two daughters, Tassansquaw (the wife of Waban) and Naanasquaw, also known as Rebeckah (the wife of Naanishcow [John Thomas]).
From 1637, Tohattawan, the SquaSachem, and others of their council sold significant tracts of their land to English planters for the establishment of the town of Concord, Massachusetts. He became an enthusiastic follower of John Eliot and converted to Christianity. In 1651, his village of Nashobah (now Littleton, Massachusetts) became the sixth of Eliot’s Praying Indian towns. Soon, Tahattawan and his son-in-law, Waban, assisted Eliot by becoming missionaries to the Passaconaway’s community in Merrimack Country. After Tohattawan’s death sometime before 1660, he was succeeded by his son John as tribal leader.
Alfred S. Hudson, Colonial Concord, Vol. 1 (Concord, MA: The Erudite Press, 1904), 17, 22, 383-4. Lemuel Shattuck, History of the Town of Concord, Mass (Boston, MA: 1835), Shirley Blancke and Barbara Robinson, From Musketaquid to Concord (Concord, MA: Concord Antiquarian Museum, 1985), 27-29. 22-23.
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