Wonalancet Penacook (abt. 1619 - abt. 1697)

Born about 1619 in Pawtucket Falls, Penacook Nation

Died about 1697 at about age 78 in Wickasauke Island, Penacook Nation

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Biography

Wonalancet was Penacook.

Wonalancet was born about 1619. He was the son of Passaconaway, and uncle of Kancamagus. He passed away about 1697.

Sources

• 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.

• John Daly. "No Middle Ground: Pennacook-New England Relations in the Seventeenth Century" — A Thesis submitted to the School of Graduate Studies in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts. Deptartment of History, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St John's Newfoundland. July 1997. (Accessed 24 Nov 2022) https://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp04/mq25835.pdf

• Mary Beth Norton. "Pannick at the Eastward: September 1765 - January 1691/2", chapter 3 of "In the Devil's Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692"

• George Wadleigh. "Notable Events in the History of Dover, N.H.: From the First Settlement in 1623 to 1865" Dover, N. H. 1913. (Accessed 24 Oct 2022) https://ia902604.us.archive.org/5/items/notableeventsinh00wadl/notableeventsinh00wadl.pdf

• WikiTree FreeSpace: Treaty at Cochecho (3 July 1676) — Richard Waldron, Nicholas Shapleigh and Thomas Daniels organized an assembly with local sagamores. Pequawket sagamore Squando of Saco, Tarantine Abenaki, signed the peace treaty at Piscataqua River, Cochecho on 3 July 1676 alongside Sagamore Wonalancet Penacook, Sampson Aboquecemoka, Samll Numphow of Wamesit, Robin Doney of the Canibas, Warockomec, and other sagamores.

• WikiTree FreeSpace: Deceit of Captain Waldron — In September 1676, Captain Joseph Syll and Captain William Hathorne, marching under orders from the Massachusetts Bay Colony, to round up 'strange Indians' who had recently fled from the southern theatre of King Philip's War, arrived at Cocheco on 6 September 1676. They enlisted the aid of the Dover magistrate, Major Richard Waldron, who had only recently signed a peace treaty with Wonolancet and Squando, with explicit provision "That none of said Indians shall entertain at any time any of our enemies..." Waldron, in turn, enlisted the aid of his compatriot, Captain Charles Frost of Kittery, to trick the Indians and then, together with the captains and their companies, to surround and capture them. This event had the effect of prolonging King Philip's War, in the north-eastern theatre of New Hampshire and Maine, until 1678. Thirteen years later, in 1689, Wonalencet's nephew Kancamagus will exact revenge on Major Richard Waldron in the Raid on Dover.

• Wikipedia article. Pennacook
• Wikipedia article. Passaconaway
• Wikipedia article. Wonalancet
• Wikipedia article. Kancamagus
• Wikipedia article. Raid on Dover