Uncas. Poquoiam. Woncase. His Marke.

Sagamore of Mohegan. Born ca. 1590, his homelands at Shantok and across some southeastern parts of present-day “Connecticut.” Descendancy and kinship ties across Narragansett and Pequot communities. Present at the Massacre at Mystic Fort, responsible for the execution of Narragansett sachem Miantonomo. Died ca. 1683.

This document outlines the areas Uncas considered to be “Pequid” lands. This document, also signed by Robin Casasinamon, asserts that Pequot homelands [a time before the colonizers stole the land], extended “to a brooke called weexcodawa…unto the end of that water or pond called nekeeequoweese…the land falling betweene that & the pond called teapanocke.” The signed document continues on to say the land “eastward of the brook weexcodawa is & was Naraganset Land belonging to Ninagras and his heires.”

Some of Uncas’ kin: parents Owaneco (I) and Mekunump; sons Owaneco (II), Attawanhood (II) or Joshua, and Benjamin Uncas. 

This document signed August 4, 1662 in so-called New London, Connecticut. Seen at the Massachusetts State Archives.