Madockawando Abenaki (abt. 1630 - abt. 1698)

Born about 1630 in Wabenaki Confederacy

Descendants

Died about 14 Oct 1698 at about age 68 in Acadie, Nouvelle-France

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Biography

Madockawando Abenaki is Notable.

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He was not of French or Acadian ancestry but he lived in the area which came to be called Acadie by French settlers.

Madockawando ( mαtáhkʷəhαnəto) was born about 1630 and died about 1698^[1][2].

Madockawando was a Grand Sachem (Chief) of the Penobscot (Panawahpskek), who are an indigenous people of the Northeastern Woodlands, located in present-day Maine USA. The Penobscot were grouped linguistically and geographically as Abenaki, an Algonquian-speaking people.^[3]

His spouse is unknown but we do know he had two daughters and likely at least one son.

1. Marie Mathilde Pidianske
2. Marie Pidiwammiska

Madowackawando was noted for his "high character for ability, courage and humanity."^[4]. This character is demonstrated by "The historians of the war have all observed that the prisoners under Madockawando were remarkably well treated.^[5]

He was known at the Chief of all the Indians in the Eastern parts of Penobscot.^[6]

He passed away in 1698, before October 14 according to correspondence of that time that "Major Converse and Capt Alden . . . arriving at Penobscot on Octe. 14. 1698, were there informed, that Madockawando, the noted sagamore, with several other sachims of the east, were lately dead"^[7].

Research Notes

Penobscot Culture and History of the Nation; also interesting information about the culture, language, etc.

A previous version of this profile claimed that Madockawando was born in 1630 to Powhatan and an Abenaki Bride named Ottopomtacks and that after his parents death, he was Adopted & Raised by his Mother's Brother, the Grand Sachem Assaminasqua.

A previous version of this profile listed Matilda Bomazeen as the wife of Madockawando. No documentation has been found to support this claim. Matilda Bomazeen was removed from this Chief as there was no evidence that she was that particular woman who was his wife, not even in story form. We know he had a wife and children, but not their names except for the one daughter. In one account, the wife was said to be the daughter of a Chief, but not which one. (Bourque-573 21:06, 7 June 2020 (UTC)) Further sources identify two daughters of the great chief.^[8]

Also removed sources that referred to the Powahatan relationship that was removed previously.(Bourque-573 21:06, 7 June 2020 (UTC))

Adopted son of Assiminasqua
Father d'Entremont, a noted Acadian historian, says that "We know of a certain number of exploits of Sagamore Madockawando, but nothing much is known of his family. Being an adopted son, he could have lost his parents early in life. His adoptive father was the great Sagamore Assiminasqua^[9]. I was unable to find

who calls him Mataknando, tell us in 1692 that he had a son, who then was in France. ^[10]

Cotton Mather, La Mothe Cadillac and John E Godfrey were all included in the Collection of the Maine HIstorical Society, First Series, VI (1859) pages 543, 183, and 45, respectively. There might be much more information available in that volume. Here is a list of the volumes in the 1st and second series (all non-circulating) https://minerva.maine.edu/search~S24?/X1st+series&searchscope=24&SORT=D/X1st+series&searchscope=24&SORT=D&SUBKEY=1st+series/1,45,45,B/holdings&FF=X1st+series&3,3,

The Volume King Philip's War : based on the archives and records of Massachusetts, Plymouth, Rhode Island and Connecticut, and contemporary letters and accounts : with biographical and topographical notes / by George W. Ellis and John E. Morris. has been noted in Amazon that "This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature."

Sources

1. ↑ Georges Cerbelaud Salagnac, “ABBADIE DE SAINT-CASTIN, JEAN-VINCENT D’, Baron de Saint-Castin,” in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 2, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003–, accessed December 23, 2013.(Note does not mention a wife, does mention a daughter.)
2. ↑ Madockawando (Wikipedia) (Note does not mention wife or daughters)
3. ↑ Madockawando, profile on Penobscot Cultural & Historic Preservation. Accessed 24 Nov 2019 (Note, this unsourced profile mentions that he married a Chief's daughter (no name of her or the Chief) and that the only known of his children was Pidianiske named Marie Mathilde)
4. ↑ Rev. Father Clarence d'Entremont, "French Canadian and Acadian Genealogie Review, Vol III, No 1, spring 1971, pp. 9-28 citing Godfrey, John E, Coll. of the Maine Historical Society, 1st Series, Vol II, (1876), p. 45,
5. ↑ Rev. Father Clarence d'Entremont, "French Canadian and Acadian Genealogie Review, Vol III, No 1, spring 1971, pp. 9-28 citing George W. Ellis and John E. Morris. King Philip's War : based on the archives and records of Massachusetts, Plymouth, Rhode Island and Connecticut, and contemporary letters and accounts : with biographical and topographical notes, The Grafton Press, N.Y. 1906, p 200 (note 2) Footnote 16 Footnote 16

   Hubbard says of him, in connection with Squando, sagamore of the Saco tribe, "They are said to be by them that know them, a strange kind of moralized savages. Grave and serious in their speech and carriage and not without some show of a kind of Religion, which no doubt but they have learned from the Prince of Darkness (by the hope of some Paptistsº in those parts), that can transform himself into an Angel of Light; under that shape the better to carry on the designes of his Kingdom." The historians of the war have all observed that the prisoners under Madockawando were remarkably well treated.

   
   see also Appendix for more mentions
6. ↑ Bahar, Matthew R. "The Sea of Trouble we are Swimming in": People of the Dawnland and the Enduring Pursuit of a Native Atlantic World, Norman OK, 2012 p. 159 citing Bruce J. Bourque, “Ethnicity on the Maritime Peninsula, 1600-1759,” Ethnohistory 36:3 (Summer 1989), 266-267;
   and
   Bruce J. Bourque, Twelve Thousand Years: American Indians in Maine, 144, 152-153; 266;
   and
   William Hubbard, A Narrative of the Troubles with the Indians in New-England, 48; “Letter from Anthony Brockhouse and others at Pemaquid to the Governor and Council,” July 17, 1677, MSA, Massachusetts Archives Collection – SC1-45X – Vol. 69: f. 155.
7. ↑ Rev. Father Clarence d'Entremont, "French Canadian and Acadian Genealogie Review, Vol III, No 1, spring 1971, pp. 9-28 citing Mather, Cotton. Magnalia Christi Americana: or The Ecclesiastical History of New-England, from its First Planting in the Year of 1620, unto the Year of Our Lord, 1698, in seven books, in two Volumes. First American Edition from the London Edition of 1702, Hartford, (Connecticut), pulbished by Silas Andrus, printed by S. Converse, New Haven, 1820, Vol 2., p 555
8. ↑ Rev. Father Clarence d'Entremont, "French Canadian and Acadian Genealogie Review, Vol III, No 1, spring 1971, pp. 9-28

   p. 10 Footnote 5
   Although the story with regard to his having married two indian women has been proven to be false, the contention of his having children from two sisters is collaborated already in 1687 by de Menneval, sucessor of Perrot, as Goveernor of Acadia, when he writes, December 1st, of the Sieur de St-Castin as "having with him two daughters of the chief of (the) savages by whom he has many children". (Hon John E. Godfrey,"Jean Vincent, Baron de Saint Castin", in Coll. of the Maine Historical Society, 1st Series, Vol II, (1876), p. 55, footnote

9. ↑ Rev. Father Clarence d'Entremont, "French Canadian and Acadian Genealogie Review, Vol III, No 1, spring 1971, pp. 9-28 citing Collection of the Maine Historical Society, 2nd series, Vol VI (1901), "The Baxter Manuscripts", (Vol 6), pp 149-172 Vol 06 downloadable PDF, searchable for Mackawando and Madakwando
   and
   George W. Ellis and John E. Morris. King Philip's War, The Gerafton Press, N.Y. 1906, p 302
10. ↑ Rev. Father Clarence d'Entremont, "French Canadian and Acadian Genealogie Review, Vol III, No 1, spring 1971, pp. 9-28 citing Collection of the Maine HIstorical Society, 1st series, Vol VI, (1859), p. 283

See also:

• Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Madockawando
• Frank T. Siebert. “The First Maine Indian War: Incident at Machias (1676).” Actes Du Quatorzieme Congres des Algonquinistes, pp. 137-156. William Cowan, ed. Ottawa: Carleton University.
• Daviault, Pierre,, Le Baron de Saint-Castin [...], Montréal, Editions de l'A.C.F., 1939, 1 ressource en ligne (219 p.) : carte, Collections de BAnQ. (Accessed 27 Oct 2022) https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/2561515