Description
In 1605, George Weymouth kidnapped five Abenaki individuals and brought them back to England, lodging three of them with Ferdinando Gorges and two with John Popham; these Englishmen would use the knowledge the Abenakis imparted in colonial ventures along the East Coast. Manedo and another, Sassacomoit, were sent back to Maine with Henry Chollons in 1606, but their ship was intercepted by a Spanish vessel. Manedo was never recovered from Seville, presumed dead.
Bibliographic sources
Vaughan, Alden T. Transatlantic Encounters: American Indians in Britain, 1500-1776, 57-65, 76; Cave, Alfred A. “New England Encounters: Indians and Euroamericans Ca. 1600-1850” in Vaughan’s New England Encounters, 43-58.