Momekhue Tray her mark
Nipmuc, identified in this deed for land at Towtaid or so-called Leicester, as an heir or Oraskasco or Oaraskaso, Sachem at Towtaid, and the wife of Phillip Tray.
Phillip Tray “with his wife, Momekhue” sign here with others to exchange an area of land eight miles square, bounded on ….“The most souther most corner upon a littoll pound called paupokquomtok then to a hill cauled wekapekatounow & from there to a litoll hill cauled mossonathues & so unto a great hill caulled Aspomstok…” for “fiften pounds curant monye of Nuengland…” The land exchanged to a group of white settlers from so-called Roxbury, Massachusetts.
Momekhue’s kin: presumably, daughter of Oraskasco, Sachem at Towtaid and sister to Waiwaynom or Wawanom. The surname Tray suggests kinship connections to Nipmucs Thomas Tray (Natick) and John Wompas (Hassanamisco).
Deed signed June 20, 1687. Seen at the American Antiquarian Society.