Pasaconaway Type: Person Identifier: 212011 Title: Pasaconaway Unique ID: Pasaconaway Standard Name: Pasaconaway Manuscript Name: Panaway Papassaconaway Papassa∣connaway Papisseconewa Papisseconeway Passacannua Passaconamy Passaconawa Passaconaway Passaconewa Passagouanouet Passaronaway Pompassenoway old papassoonaway Ethnicity: Penacook Family: Father of Wanalancet Father of Wenchus Place Event: Agawam (Ipswich, MA) Place Vital: Amoskeag (Manchester, NH) Date: 1625 1629-05-17 1631-08 1632 1632-09 1633 1634 1642 1643-05 1644-05-20 1644-06-12 1648 1659-11-08 1660 1660-05-31 1662-05-09 1662-05-10 1663 1663-05-25 1663-05-27 1663-10-21 1664-06-12 1665 1665-06-17 1665-10-10 1670 1671 1671-09 1675-09-21 1737 Alias: Old William Mention Type: archival, MA, ME Warnings: Lifespan is 113 years Event that this Person attendedItem 125886 Signed a deed with others to Wheelwright, et al; sagamore of Penacook.ChildrenItem 215614 WanalancetItem 215821 WenchusMentions of this PersonItem 44664 News of Connecticut Indians planning to attack English caused Mass Governor to order him disarmed. Arrested his son instead.Item 44663 Old chief living there.Item 44686 “that Indian Sachim Passaconnaway, that old Witch and Powwaw, who together with both his sons, fled the prefence of the light”Item 44666 Said to have been a great sachem, urged his people not to fight the English.Item 44667 Chief of 400 families in 3 villages.Item 44655 Visited Thompson settlement, hoping for settlers to protect against Tarrentines.Item 44657 Petitioned for a grant of land at Naticot for himself and others.Item 44671 Petitioned for land, having sold to Benton at Naticook, on Merimac River.Item 44682 Surveyors returned from laying out his land at Naticot (Litchfield, N. H.).Item 44681 Parker rendered account of plantation granted ot him.Item 44684 Mentioned.Item 44672 Letter sent to him by the council about a treaty of peace.Item 44661 Submitted to Massachusetts governance.Item 44677 He and son Nahnanacomock submit to English governance.Item 44683 With Nahnanacomock submitted fo Massachusetts government.Item 44676 He and son want to come under Mass. Govt.Item 44678 With son, Nahnanacommock, submit to government of English of Massachusetts.Item 44665 Son in debtor's prison.Item 44658 Chief Sachem there, mentioned in Mass/ N.H. boundary dispute.Item 44679 Great witch, became Christian; oldest son was at Wachusett.Item 44674 Said to be a great powah.Item 44685 Signed a deed with others to Wheelwright, et al; sagamore of Penacook.Item 44669 Waldron deposition that the Penacook Indians called the river the Merrimack River.Item 44680 John Endicott Jr. petitioned to have Passaconaway's deed to him confirmed by the court.Item 44668 Waldron testified that he told him the Pennecook river was called Merremack.Item 44660 Approved Pentucket sale.Item 44687 100 acres to be laid out for him and eldest Nanamacuck near Groton, including his planting ground.Item 44662 Daughter Wenuhus was carried off captive in Tarrentine raid on Mascarominet there.Item 44675 Jenkins was robbed and killed by his men.Item 44670 Sagamore there.Item 44673 Said to be a great Powow/magician.Show 25 moreSource Manuscripts for this PersonItem 300109 Coffin 1845 Coffin, Joshua 1845 A Sketch ...Item 300123 CSP Calendar of State Papers, Colonial Series ...Item 300751 Eliot 1670 Eliot, John 1670 Good News from ...Item 300254 Hubbard 1971 Hubbard, William 1971 (1677) ...Item 300301 Leger, Mary C. 1929 The Catholic Missions ...Item 300304 Levett 1624 Levett, Christopher 1988 A Voyage ...Item 300315 MA Massachusetts Archives, Boston. Most ...Item 300318 MaHSC Massachusetts Historic Society Collections ...Item 300357 Morton 1883 Morton, Tomas 1883 New English ...Item 300412 NHPP Provincial and State Papers of New ...Item 300630 YD 1897-1910 York Deeds, various editors ...Item 300519 SCCR 1933 Records of the Suffolk County ...Item 300528 Shurtleff 1853-4 Shurtleff, Nathaniel B ...Item 300622 Winthrop 1908 Winthrop, John 1908 Winthrop’s ...Item 300624 Wood 1865 Wood, William 1865 New England’s ... Relationships Enlarge Citation “Pasaconaway,” Historical Documents of Indians of the Far Northeast, accessed April 24, 2025, https://hrifne.avantlogic.net/digitalarchive/items/show/60194.Item212011 Save this item as a PDF file
