Watanumon Type: Person Identifier: 215713 Title: Watanumon Unique ID: Watanumon Standard Name: Watanumon Manuscript Name: Wadanummin Wadnummin Walteonumus Walternummus Watahnumun Watanum Watanuman Watanumman Watanumon Watenuman Waterman Waternuman Waternummon Watnummon Wattanamunta Wattanummin Wattanummon Wattanumon Wattanumunton Wottonoomun Ethnicity: Penacook Penacook? Pigwacket Family: Grandson of Winapoikin Place Event: Baker River (Grafton, NH)Boston, MACasco Bay, MEChabanakongkomun (Webster/Dudley, MA)Halifax, NSLynn, MAMerrimack River, MA/NH Place Vital: Baker River (Grafton, NH)Cowas (Newbury, VT)Merrimack River, MA/NHNorwottuck (Hadley, MA)Penacook (Concord, NH)Pigwacket (Fryeburg, ME)Schoodic Lakes (Grand Lake Stream, ME) Date: 1672 1672-06-19 1674-04-10 1681-12-08 1684-05-17 1689-03-22 1689-04-25 1689-05-05 1690 1690-06 1692-03-25 1698 1699-01-07 1699-01-27 1700 1702-07-20 1703-03-09 1703-03-10 1703-06-20 1703-06-29 1704 1712 1717 1722 1727 Events that this Person attendedItem 102419 Said to have testified that Andros tried to get Mohawks to attack the English.Item 128853 Wuttawen was released to him and others, who agreed to find Petowanuck of otherwise compensate for his crimes.Item 132172 Metawompe sold land on is behalf to Pynchon.Item 132177 Witnessed Umpanchala's land sale to Northampton.Item 132559 Chief; signed submission earlier signed by Eastern Indians.Item 135509 Signed a deed to Winapoikins lands in Lynn and elsewhere with others.KinsmanItem 215918 WinapoikinMentions of this PersonItem 55597 Sister warned English of Indian and French attack plans for "eastward, Merrimack and Connectucut Valley.Item 55604 Said to have testified that Andros tried to get Mohawks to attack the English.Item 55591 Wuttawen was released to him and others, who agreed to find Petowanuck of otherwise compensate for his crimes.Item 55595 Advised to trade at Wataanuck, not to approach settlements. A Pennicooke sachem.Item 55608 One of the Pennicooke Sachems, agreed to allow a trader at Watannuck [Dunstable, MA], not go near English towns, report and not entertain French Indians. Also to speak with "George Tohanto, the other Sachem."Item 55603 There with his band, attacked, survivors head to Winnepsaukee, Pigwacket.Item 55592 Leader of Pigwackets there.Item 55584 Metawompe sold land on is behalf to Pynchon.Item 55587 Witnessed Umpanchala's land sale to Northampton.Item 55605 Intervened in a raid and saved the family of Col. Dudley Bradstreet.Item 55601 Chief; signed submission earlier signed by Eastern Indians.Item 55590 Sagamore with George Tohanto, Mahonusco.Item 55607 Petitioned Massachusetts to live with in peace with the English.Item 55606 Mentioned.Item 55600 Hinchman asked that he be allowed to live among the English; had been captive for a year by Eastern and French Indians.Item 55596 A Penacook living there.Item 55602 Lived there with a few followers.Item 55589 Signed a treaty as a Penacook with Pigwackets.Item 55593 Said to have been a sachem and Captain of the Merrimack Indians in deposition dates 08/23/1737.Item 55599 With Wanalancet wanted to continue in peace. He was called the Penacook sachem.Item 55594 Attacked Hampshire County.Item 55586 Signed a deed to Winapoikins lands in Lynn and elsewhere with others.Item 55598 Chief Capt. under Wanalancet; wanted friendship.Item 55585 Signed a deed with Joseph Trask others to Jonathan Tyng.Item 55588 Deceased; shot by militia under Thomas Baker.Show 19 moreSource Manuscripts for this PersonItem 300003 Acts and Resolves, Public and Private, of ...Item 300023 The Andros Tracts, Being a Collection of ...Item 300116 Coolidge, Austinn J. Notes Compiled from ...Item 300123 Calendar of State Papers, Colonial Series ...Item 300134 Day, Gordon M. The Identity of the Saint ...Item 300228 Haefeli, Evan, and Kevin Sweeny. “Wattanummon’s ...Item 300281 Judd, Sylvester. History of Hadley, Including ...Item 300314 Lyford, James O., ed. History of Concord ...Item 300315 Massachusetts Archives. Boston, Mass.Item 300318 Massachusetts Historic Society Collections ...Item 300411 Collections of the New Hampshire Historical ...Item 300412 Provincial and State Papers of New Hampshire ...Item 300147 Drake, Samuel G. The Book of the Indians ...Item 300454 Penhallow, Samuel. “The History of the Wars ...Item 300522 Suffolk Deeds, 1880–1906. BostonItem 300529 Shurtleff, Nathaniel B. Records of the Colony ...Item 300537 Southern Middlesex County Registry of Deeds ...Item 300577 Trumbull, James R. History of Northampton ...Show 12 more Relationships Enlarge Citation “Watanumon,” HRI-FNE, accessed August 1, 2025, https://hrifne.avantlogic.net/digitalarchive/items/show/57718.Item215713 Save this item as a PDF file
