Awashonks. Awawsuncks. Her Mark. 

Sachem of the Sakonnet. Her home there, near Narragansett Bay and Patuxet, in and around the place known today as Little Compton, Rhode Island. Created a hopeful alliance with colonizers at Plimoth to spare her people from enslavement during and after King Philip’s War. Endured the dispossession of lands and several attempts by colonizers to usurp her role as leader at Sakonnet. 

Some of her kin (also appearing on this document): Samponock (alias Amos), Wawwooyowwitt, Soonchas (identified as her son). Names spelled as they appear. 

This deed for Sakonnet land, signed May 23, 1674. Seen @ Massachusetts Historical Society.