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Indian Woman
Chief
Awashonks.
The woman chief of Seconet, R. I., whose fame obscured that of Tolony, her
husband (Drake, Inds. of N. Am., 249, 1880). Her name is signed to the
Plymouth agreement of 1671. She was drawn into King Philip's war in
support of that chief, but afterward made her peace with the English. One
of her sons is said to have studied Latin in preparation for college, but
succumbed to the palsy.
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