Ephraim, Peter, - 1685

An heir of Waquaie, the sagamore of Quesskoqgowonggonuk, Peter Ephraim was a Natick Indian, whose wife's name was Wuttawtinnusk.  He was converted to Christianity by John Eliot and became an interpreter, counselor, and attorney for the Christian Indians at Natick.  During King Philip's War, Daniel Gookin ordered Ephraim to enlist his fellow Natick in capturing and killing enemy Indians.   He served in the relief of Medfield, Massachusetts.  By 1679 he lived at Brush Hill at Natick and exchanged land with the Town of Sherburne.  In 1683, he also owned land at Hassanamesit and, as an heir of Peter Awassamog of Natick, at Mendon as well.  William Hubbard, A Narrative of the Indian Wars in New-England (Stockbridge, MA: Heman Willard, 1803), 170.  Ives Goddard and Kathleen J. Bragdon, Native Writings in Massachusett (Philadelphia: The American Philosophical Society, 1988), 757. William Barry, A History of Framingham, Massachusetts (Boston: James Munroe and Company, 1847), 28.