Monoco - Monoco
Monoco was a 17th-century Nashaway sachem (chief), known among the New England Puritans as âOne-eyed Johnâ.
After decades of peaceful coexistence, tensions arose between settlers and natives. The Nashaway attacked the neighboring English settlement of Lancaster, Massachusetts, in August 1675 and again in February 1678 as part of the more general native-settler conflict known as King Philipâs War. During the latter action, Monoco kidnapped a villager, Mary Rowlandson, and took her and her children with him and his party for many weeks.
Rowlandson later wrote and published what became a best-selling narrative about her captivity with the Indians and release.
References
Additional reading
- Lepore, Jill, The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity, New York: Alfred A. Knopf & Co., 1998
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