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Massasoit Sachem or Ousamequin was the sachem or leader of the Wampanoag confederacy. Massasoit means Great Sachem. Although Massasoit was only his title, English colonists mistook it as his name and it stuck.
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1904 photo of Profile Rock in Assonet, Massachusetts; local Wampanoags believe it represents Massasoit.
Part of an old map of New England, Morton's Memorial, 1677. The crown, indicating the royal seat of Massasoit, lies between the two branches of the Sowams River.
Massasoit smoking a ceremonial pipe with Governor John Carver in Plymouth, 1621 as imagined by a 19th century engraver
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About this person
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deceased
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Lived 1580 to 1662 · aged 82
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