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1580-1622

Who Was Squanto?

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Early Life and Capture

Interpreter and Guide for the Pilgrims

Death

Who Was Squanto?

Squanto, also known as Tisquantum, was a Native American of the Patuxet tribe who played a pivotal role in the early survival of the Pilgrim settlers of Plymouth Colony. As a young man, he was kidnapped twice by British explorers and sold into slavery in Spain. After escaping, Squanto returned to North America in 1619, only to find his tribe wiped out by disease. Fluent in English, he then served as an interpreter and guide for the settlers at Plymouth for nearly two years before dying of a fever sometime around November 1622.

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FULL NAME: Tisquantum

BORN: c. 1580

DIED: November 1622

BIRTHPLACE: Patuxet (Now Plymouth, Massachus

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