Posts Tagged ‘Wampanoag History’

Samuel de Champlain in Chatham: Mapping His 1606 Voyage to Stage Harbor A Samuel de Champlain route map for 1606 traces a coastal voyage that ended, for about two weeks that autumn, in the harbour now called Stage Harbor in Chatham, Massachusetts. The expedition sailed south from the French settlement at Port Royal, felt its…

Squanto (Tisquantum): Life, Pilgrims & Chatham Death Tisquantum, called Squanto in English colonial records, was a Patuxet Wampanoag man who worked as an interpreter, guide, and negotiator for the English settlers at Plymouth Colony.  He was taken from the New England coast by an English ship captain, spent years in Europe and Newfoundland, and returned…