John Wampus Type: Person Identifier: 215595 Title: John Wampus Unique ID: John Wampus Standard Name: Wampus Manuscript Name: John Wampas John Wampause John Wampoas John Wampus John Woampas John Wompony Jphn Wampas Ethnicity: Hassanamesit Natick Nipmuc Family: Nephew of Thomas Tray Place Event: Boston, MA Place Vital: Boston, MA Date: 1661-05-21 1666-01 1666-01-28 1668 1672 1672-10-09 1675 1676-08-22 1676-09 1676-09-28 1677-09-15 1679-10-01 1679-11-03 1681-09-14 1681-09-15 1681-10-17 1683 1683-05-10 1684-05-12 1686-08-25 1704-03-21 Alias: John White White Mention Type: archival, MA, ME Events that this Person attendedItem 128850 With others, petitioned court e: lands they claimed to own.Item 132137 General Court appointed a committee to look into their claim to land.Item 132520 Complained against John Wampoas sale of land there.Item 101250 Complaint that the sale of land to Thayer was illegal because John Wampus had no rights at Hassanameset.Item 107026 Petitioned regarding land dispute.KinsmanItem 215376 Thomas TrayMentions of this PersonItem 55226 Massachusetts granted permission for him to sell land there. Reserved his land at Hassanamisco.Item 55229 Deceased; his will was probated there. Left Hassanamesit to relatives John a Wonsamok, Pumhammell; age about 41.Item 55218 Given by his father to be raised by the English. Married Anne Praske (Mohegan)Item 55219 Bought a house on the common, east side of Tremont St. (under St. Paul's church), between Winter St. and Temple Place. A seaman, traveled to England.Item 55221 With others, petitioned court e: lands they claimed to own.Item 55222 Signed on for a voyage to England.Item 55224 Sold his house.Item 57286 Briefly attended Harvard College.Item 55225 Married Ann Priske of Fairfield Conn. Area. Middlesex County Record of Marriages:216 (Boston)Item 55214 Put in jail for a disturbance in church at the outbreak of King Philip's War.Item 55237 General Court appointed a committee to look into their claim to land.Item 55217 Signed a mortgageItem 55211 King Charles helped to get him out of debtors prison in London by writing a letter to Gov. Leverett.Item 55208 Sold 1,000 acres at Quinsigamond to Englishmen Mudd and Warner. Middlesex Registry of Deeds 6:101Item 55235 John Comer and others petitioned to have his deed to them for land in Nipmuk country confirmed.Item 55215 Gookin challenged his claims to land in Nipmuk country.Item 55233 Deceased; mentioned in complaint of Hassanameset Indians against Richard Taylor.Item 55230 Complained against John Wampoas sale of land there.Item 55227 Deceased; executors were summoned by the court.Item 55238 Complaint that the sale of land to Thayer was illegal because John Wampus had no rights at Hassanameset.Item 56868 Deceased; aged 60. John Woampas was no Sachem, and had no more right to or title to any lands in the Nipmuk countyr. . .that any other common Indians"Item 55231 Sometime resident at Hassanamesit.Item 59767 Bought a lot from Robert Wayard 300 x 30 ft. with a house. The lot is now partly covered by St. Paul's Church.Item 57125 "Hudson Leverett, alias John Laeverett" granted 1/2 acre bounding on the common to John Wampas, an Indian;, by warranty deed.Item 55212 Deceased; Chief there. Heirs deeded land to Pratt and others.Item 55232 Petitioned regarding land dispute.Item 55228 Heirs claim to land there was questioned by the general court.Item 55236 Signed a deed to E. Pratt.Show 22 moreSource Manuscripts for this PersonItem 300003 Acts and Resolves, Public and Private, of ...Item 300113 Connole, Dennis A. The Indians of Nipmuk ...Item 300863 Digging Veritas, Students in the Seventeenth ...Item 300253 History of the Town of Sutton, Massachusetts ...Item 300315 Massachusetts Archives. Boston, Mass.Item 300318 Massachusetts Historic Society Collections ...Item 300464 Pierce, Frederick Clifton. History of Grafton ...Item 300486 Records Relating to the Early History of ...Item 300522 Suffolk Deeds, 1880–1906. BostonItem 300478 Deed from John Printer to Monaham and others ...Item 300528 Shurtleff, Nathaniel B. Records of the Governor ...Item 300537 Southern Middlesex County Registry of Deeds ... Relationships Enlarge Citation “John Wampus,” HRI-FNE, accessed July 2, 2025, https://www.hrifne.avantlogic.net/digitalarchive/items/show/57756.Item215595 Save this item as a PDF file
