Description
Tisquantum, along with 26 others, was captured by Thomas Hunt and his crew in 1614 and sold into slavery in Spain. He managed to reach London (probably on a merchant’s ship, as there was a small community of English merchants around Malaga), where, like the Abenaki, Amoret, he also lived with Slaney. He traveled with a Newfoundland Company expedition and discovered on a reconnoitring trip down the New England coast with Thomas Dermer that his home community at Patuxet had been wiped out by disease. He would eventually mediate between the Mayflower colonists and the Wampanoag (having been brought in by Massasoit to interpret), and become involved in the very complicated and fractious relations between the English and Massasoit’s people. Some accounts also suggest that Tisquantum was one of those brought back by Weymouth in 1605, but this is thought to be impossible.
Bibliographic sources
Thrush, Indigenous London, 44, 48, 52, 56-57.