Dec 21, 2022
Mashalisk. Massaliskwa. "Great Woman." Her Mark.
Pocumtuck. Her home along the eastern side of the Kwinitekw (Connecticut) River, in areas today referred to as Deerfield, Leverett, Montague, Sunderland, and Wendell, Massachusetts. A leader, fur trader, caretaker.
Her kin: a son, Wattawaluncksin, a granddaughter, Weetanusk.
This deed, signed in 1672 for land in an area known to us as the Great Beaver, now part of so-called Deerfield, Massachusetts. Place names used include: Wequomps (present day Sugarloaf), Tawwattuck [Seip] (River) and Mattampahs, Allinnackcooke, Taukkanackcoss (islands within the river), Mantehlant Mattampash.
Seen @ Springfield History Library and Archives, Springfield, Ma.