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    John Eliot's First Indian Teacher and Interpreter Cockenoe-de-Long Island and The Story of His Career from the Early Records
    John Eliot's First Indian Teacher and Interpreter Cockenoe-de-Long Island and The Story of His Career from the Early Records
    John Eliot's First Indian Teacher and Interpreter Cockenoe-de-Long Island and The Story of His Career from the Early Records
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    John Eliot's First Indian Teacher and Interpreter Cockenoe-de-Long Island and The Story of His Career from the Early Records

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      Title: John Eliot's First Indian Teacher and Interpreter Cockenoe-de-Long Island and The Story of His Career from the Early Records

      Author: William Wallace Tooker

      Release Date: December 26, 2007 [EBook #24046]

      Language: English

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      COCKENOE-DE-LONG ISLAND

      Edition Limited

      To 215 Copies.

      No. 169.

      INDIAN GRAVES ON FORT HILL, MONTAUK

      JOHN ELIOT'S

      First Indian Teacher and

      Interpreter

      COCKENOE-DE-LONG ISLAND

      AND

      The Story of His Career from the Early Records

      BY

      WILLIAM WALLACE TOOKER

      Member of the Long Island Historical Society, Anthropological

      Society of Washington, etc., etc.

      ✠

      "He was the first that I made use of to teach me words

      and to be my interpreter."—Eliot's Letter, 2, 12, 1648.

      ✠

      LONDON:

      HENRY STEVENS' SON and STILES.

      1896

      RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED TO THE OFFICERS AND MEMBERS

      OF THE SUFFOLK COUNTY (N. Y.) HISTORICAL

      SOCIETY BY YOUR FELLOW MEMBER

      WILLIAM WALLACE TOOKER.

      INTRODUCTION.

      This little work is a brief résumé of the career of an Indian of Long Island, who, from his exceptional knowledge of the English language, his traits of character, and strong personality, was recognized as a valuable coadjutor and interpreter by many of our first English settlers. These personal attributes were also known and appreciated by the inhabitants of some parts of Connecticut and Massachusetts, by the Commissioners of the United Colonies of New England, and by the Governor of the Colony of New York, all of whom found occasion for his services in their transactions with the Indians. The facts which I shall present in their chronological order, and the strong circumstantial evidence adduced therefrom, will indicate the reasons why I have unraveled the threads of this Indian's life from the weft of the past, and why the recital of his career should be the theme of a special essay, and worthy of a distinctive chapter in the aboriginal, as well as in the Colonial, history of Long Island.

      William Wallace Tooker.

      Sag Harbor, L. I., March, 1896.

      COCKENOE-DE-LONG ISLAND.

      The victory of Captain John Mason and Captain John Underhill over the Pequots on the hills of Mystic, in 1637, in its results was far greater than that of Wellington on the field of Waterloo. This fact will impress itself in indelible characters on the minds of those who delve into the historical truths connected with the genesis of our settlements, so wide spreading were the fruits of this victory. As the native inhabitants of the eastern part of Long Island and the adjacent islands were subjects of, and under tribute to, these dreaded Pequots,[1] they were more or less disturbed by the issues of the after conflicts which ensued in hunting out the fleeing survivors. But as two of the Long Island Sachems, Yoco, the Sachem of Shelter Island, and Wyandanch, the Sachem of Montauk, through the mediation of their friend Lion Gardiner came three days after the fight, and placed themselves under the protection of the victors,[2] and, as the latter with his men assisted Captain Stoughton during the finale at the Great Swamp,[3] beyond New Haven, they did not feel the effects so severely as did the immediate allies of the Pequots. Many of the younger Indians captured in this war, especially those taken in Connecticut, were carried to Boston, and there sold into slavery, or distributed around the country into a limited period of servitude[4]—a period generally terminating when the individual so bound had arrived at the age of twenty-five.

      Among those so captured and allotted was a young Indian of Long Island, who became a servant in the family of a

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