• Wequash Cooke (also known as: Wequash Cook or Weekwash or Weekwosh or Wequashcuk) (died 1642) was allegedly one of the earliest Native American converts...
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  • the help of their sachem Uncas, the Christian convert and sagamore Wequash Cooke, and the Narragansetts during the Pequot War. This ended with the death...
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    town of Guilford on what was then called Menuncatuck with a deed from Wequash Cooke. Construction of his fortified stone house the Henry Whitfield House...
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    Narragansetts, Mason and Underhill marched their forces with Uncas and Wequash Cooke about 20 miles towards Mistick Fort (present-day Mystic). They briefly...
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    Chidsey (1902–1981), lived in Lyme for many years; novelist and historian Wequash Cooke (died 1642), buried in Lyme; Native American leader William Diard (1924–2009)...
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  • married her uncle Ninigret. Wepitanock's sons were Harman Garrett and Wequash Cooke and Tomtico and another unnamed son who died in 1650 according to Roger...
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    evangelization efforts and results, including the conversion experience of Wequash Cooke (d.1642) as allegedly the first Native American conversion to Protestant...
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    Sachem Uncas, who formed a unique and lasting bond with Mason and also Wequash Cooke. This brief and decisive war, with the Mystic Massacre in particular...
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    the first Indian conversions to Christianity (particularly that of Wequash Cooke, a Pequot in Connecticut Colony) and to thereby halt Massachusetts Bay's...
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    the grandson of sachem Saccious. Garrett was also the half-brother of Wequash Cooke, who helped the colonial military to defeat the Pequots during the Pequot...
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