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Masconomet Quinakonant was the sagamore (chief) of the Agawam tribe of the Algonquian Native Americans when the first Puritan colonists arrived in Ipswich in 1633 and he had survived the pandemic ...
It is likely that the Agawam to whom Rogers referred were natives of the area near Ipswich. Ipswich was also known as Agawam, the English name for the tribe, during much of the 17th century.