The marke of Noenobekon; interpreter
Possibly Pocasset Wampanoag or Narragansett. Identified on this deed, signed in June of 1660 as an interpreter for Namumpum (Weetamoo) and Quiquequonnechog, her then partner.
The document elucidates on access to land for white settlers, and includes place names for lands at and beyond Pocasset (present-day Little Compton, Rhode Island). Some place names are spelled here as they appear (or as well as I can decipher) as: “...a certain necke of land commonly called by ye name of Panaquaquit, popochocksset … chechoesit, wonascotucket, womposcocinnat…”
We have been hard pressed to find further information about Noenobekon, beyond what can be inferred from the document itself.
Dated June 1660, seen at the Massachusetts Historical Society