Samoset

First Sagamore of the Mighty Algonquin Nation sent to the the Pilgrim settlement At Patuxet by  Sachem Massasoit and his people. /ECN/

Samoset was probably born about 1590 in what is now Maine. He was the first Native American the Pilgrims met after their arrival at Plymouth. He is described in Mourt's "Relation" or "Journal of the Plantation at Plymouth," as follows:

"...he saluted us in English and bad us well-come for he had learned some broken English amongst the Englishmen who came to fish at Monchiggon… he was a man free in speech so farre as he could express his minde and of a seemly carriage... he said he was not of these parts but of Morattigon and one of the Sagamores or Lords thereof...." [1]

Christopher Levett, an English man who attempted to start a settlement in Maine in 1623 described Samoset ("Somerset") as "a Sagamore, one that hath ben found very faithfull to the English, and hath saved the Lives of many, of our Nation, some from starving, others from killing. " [2]

Descendants of a man named John Brown claimed that Samoset had deeded land in Maine to their ancestor and others between 1625 and 1640, [3] but modern scholars believe those deeds were later forgeries. Samoset does not appear in other records, but he is assumed to have died about 1653.

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