Quannapohkit, Thomas

Thomas Quannapohkit was one of the sons of John Awassamug and brother to James Quannapohkit.  Being kin to Wenepoykin, he was a member of a prominent Natick family, who had converted to Christianity through the efforts of John Eliot.  Quannapohkit was captain of a company of Indians sent to Mount Hope under Isaac Johnson in 1675.  In this service he was seriously wounded and lost his right hand.  He also served as a scout under Captains Thomas Prentice, Joseph Syll, and Daniel Henchman.  Quannapohkit assumed his father's role as leader of the Natick by 1684, as Awassamug became old and infirm.  In that year, the elder man with several of his kin deeded two thousand acres of land to Quannapohkit, which was sold the next year to pay for Awassamug's medical and burial expenses.

Drake, Biography and History of the Indians of North America, 92-93.  Daniel Gookin, An Historical Account of the Doings and Sufferings of the Christian Indians in New England (1677, repr. Cambridge, MA: American Antiquarian Society, 1836).  O'Brien, Dispossession by Degrees, 80-81.