Wequash Cooke

Wequash Cooke
Wequash Cook, Weekwash, Weekwosh, or Wequashcuk
Pequot leader
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Died1642 (1643)
RelationsUncle, Ninigret
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Wequash Cooke (also known as: Wequash Cook or Weekwash or Weekwosh or Wequashcuk) (died 1642) was allegedly one of the earliest Native American converts to Protestant Christianity, and as a sagamore he played an important role in the 1637 Pequot War in New England.

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