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Weetamoo Pocasset (abt. 1625 - abt. 1676)
SachemWeetamoo"Namumpum, Tatapanum, Weethao, Weetamoe, Wattinmore"Pocasset
Born about in Wampanoag land
Ancestors Daughter of Corbitant Pocasset and Quinapin (Poanoket) Pocassets
[sibling(s) unknown]
Wife of Moonanum Wampanoag — married [date unknown] [location unknown]
DescendantsMother of Saunka Pokanoket
Died about at about age 51in South Swansea, Massachusetts
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Weetamoe was born about 1624.
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She passed away in 1676.
- "Namumpum, alias Tatapanum, alias Weetamoo, became the wife of this the eldest son of Massasoit, in or before 1653. She was called the 'squaw sachem of Pocasset,' and as such she claimed not only to rule the Indians of that section of country, but she also claimed a title or ownership to the land in her own individual right, which last claim would seem to make it appear that she had been t