Matoonas Type: Person Identifier: 209428 Title: Matoonas Unique ID: Matoonas Standard Name: Matoonas Manuscript Name: Matoonas Matoonus Mattoonus Ethnicity: Nipmuck Place Event: Menemesseg (New Braintree, MA) Place Vital: Mendon, MA Date: 1670 1674-11-17 1675 1675-07-14 1675-11-24 1676 1676-01-24 1676-07-29 1677-07-27 Alias: Matoonas Mention Type: archival, MA, ME Events that this Person attendedItem 104988 One of the five Nipmuk sachems.Item 110254 Nipmuk sachem loyal to Philip.ParentItem 206687 John JethroMentions of this PersonItem 36841 Led first Nipmuk raid of the war.Item 36842 Eliot made him constable. (Pakachoag)Item 36849 One of the five Nipmuk sachems.Item 36843 Deputed to be a constable at Packagnoag, which he had been already for two years.Item 36848 First to commit a hostile act in King Philip's war in revenge for his hanged son.Item 36846 Visited James Quanapaug when he met with One Eyed JohnItem 36839 Had led a company according to John Quanapaug. A hostile.Item 36845 Surrendered under amnesty; father was Capt. John Jethroag.Item 36840 From there,was brought with his son by other Indians in chords; a ring leader in the war.Item 36844 Nipmuk sachem loyal to Philip.Item 36847 Deceased. Brought in by Sagamore John, along with his son; shot by John's men.Source Manuscripts for this PersonItem 300113 Connole, Dennis A. The Indians of Nipmuk ...Item 300125 Collections of the Worcester Society of Antiquity ...Item 300220 Gookin, Daniel. Historical Collections of ...Item 300254 Hubbard, William. The History of the Indian ...Item 300318 Massachusetts Historic Society Collections ...Item 300408 New England Historical and Genealogical Register ...Item 300417 Nourse, Henry S. The Early Records of Lancaster ...Item 300464 Pierce, Frederick Clifton. History of Grafton ...Item 300524 Sewall, Samuel. The Diary of Samuel Sewall ... Relationships Enlarge Citation “Matoonas,” Historical Documents of Indians of the Far Northeast, accessed May 4, 2025, https://www.hrifne.avantlogic.net/digitalarchive/items/show/60204.Item209428 Save this item as a PDF file
