Quadiquina

Introduced the Pilgrims to popcorn when he brought it to the first Thanksgiving dinner.

Wampanoag Indian.

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Quadiquina ( ) was the older of Massaaoit's two brothers. He is first mentioned when he accompanied Massasoit to Plymouth in March,1621, and was described as "a very proper, tall young man of a very modest and seemly countenance." He is generally credited with being one of the two" King's of Pokanoket" whom Captain Dermer interviewed at Nemasket in June, 1619, this conclusion undoubtedly being drawn from the fact he accompanied Massasoit to his early meeting's with the English.

He was thought to be next in age to Massasoit, as Akkompion the other brother does not appear until a much later date.The part played by him in the affairs of the tribe and federation in their dealings with their neighbors appears to have been an inconsequential one. Quadiquina was therefore later considered by the English as simply a younger brother of the "King," and, in consequence of his royal blood, a close counsellor and frequent companion. Quadiquina died within a few years of the landing of the Pilgrims.

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Plymouth Colony authorities, William Bradford and Edward Winslow, describe the first interaction with the Massasoit and Quadequina (brothers and members of the Wampanoag Nation). This is an excerpt from part I of Mourt’s Relation: A Journal of the Pilgrims as Plymouth, published in London in 1622. Parenthetical explanations by Stephanie Wood. A “relation” in this case means a “journal” or a narrative account. It comes from the verb, to “relate” something, as in to tell something.

“Thursday, the 22nd of March [1621], was a very fair warm day. About noon we met again about our public business, but we had scarce been an hour together, but Samoset came again, and Tisquantum, the only native of Patuxet, where we now inhabit, who was one of the twenty captives that by [Thomas] Hunt were carried away [i.e. taken captive, enslaved], with three others, and they brought with them some few skins to truck [i.e. trade], and some red herrings newly taken and dried, but not salted, and signified unto us, that their great sagamore Massasoit was hard by [i.e. nearby], with Quadequina his brother, and all their men. They could not well express in English what they would, but after an hour the king came to the top of a hill over against us [i.e. facing us], and had in his train [i.e. group] sixty men, that we could well behold them and they us. We were not willing to send our governor to them, and they unwilling to come to us, so Tisquantum went again unto him, who brought word that we should send one to parley [i.e. talk] with him, which we did, which was Edward Winslow, to know his mind [i.e. his thinking], and to signify the mind and will of our governor, which was to have trading and peace with him. We sent to the king [i.e. Massasoit] a pair of knives, and a copper chain with a jewel at it. To Quadequina we sent likewise a knife and a jewel to hang in his ear, and withal a pot of strong water, a good quantity of biscuit, and some butter, which were all willingly accepted.

References

• A RELATION OR JOURNAL OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE PLANTATION settled at Plymouth in NEW ENGLAND link

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Quadequina is the Father of Oguina - later renamed Margaret Wheldon - and at least one other girl (perhaps more), who married the brother of Margaret's husband, who was also a Wheldon.

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