John Eliot's First Indian Teacher and Interpreter Cockenoe-de-Long Island and The Story of His Career from the Early Records

Note 15 — COCKENOE-DE-LONG ISLAND.

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Nowedonah = N'owi-dónoh, "I seek him," or "I go to seek him." This Sachem was formerly called Witaneymen or Weenagamin, and he probably changed his name when he went to spy out the enemies of the Dutch in 1645 (Colonial History of New York, vol. xiv. p. 60), see also Thompson's Long Island, vol. i. p. 365, Plymouth Colonial Records, vol. ix. p. 18, where he is called Weenakamin, i. e., "bitter berry."

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