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Sassacus
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| Pequot leader | |
| In office 1632 – June 1637 |
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| Born | c. 1560 |
| Died | Present-Day New York |
| Cause of death | Murdered by the Mohawk Tribe |
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Sassacus (Massachusett: Sassakusu (fierce) (c. 1560 – June 1637) was born near present-day Groton, Connecticut. He was a Pequot sachem, and he became grand sachem after his father sachem Tatobem was killed in 1632. The Mohegans led by sachem Uncas rebelled against domination by the Pequots. Sassacus and the Pequots were defeated by English colonists along with their Narragansett and Mohegan allies in the Pequot War.
Sassacus fled to what he thought was safety among the Iroquois Mohawks in present-day New York, but they murdered him.
Sassacus possibly had a brother who married Ninigret's daughter, and his sister-in-law may have married Harman Garrett.
See also
In Spanish: Sassacus para niños
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