Squanto biography timeline project
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- Squanto's exact date of birth is unknown.
- In 1614 Squanto was captured by English explorer, Thomas Hunt.
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Squanto born
- Squanto's exact date of birth is unknown. Historians think that it may be on January 1, 1585 or 1592. He was a Patuxet Indian born near New Plymouth. He was later called Tisquantum as an adult. This ment rage in Wompanoag.
- It was was somewhere between 1605-1610, and the men had come on a trading ship. Squanto spent some time with them, learning their language and helping them in their dealings with other Indians. They treated him well, even giving him clothes to wear. When they were ready to leave, they invited him along--back to England.
- He was kidnapped by Captain Thomas Hunt in 1615, lived in England with the family of Charles Robbins, one of his friends on the ship. For a while, he was part of an "Indian exhibit" on a London stage. Squanto soon became homesick, and his friend did his best to find a way for him to return to America.
He returned to North America with Capt. Thomas Dermer in 1619. - John Slainy took Squanto to Cuper's Cove, Newfoundland in 1617. To get to New England, Squanto tried to take part in an expedition
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Sign Me UpSquanto was a Native American who was a member of the Patuxet people known for teaching the pilgrims of Plymouth about survival in New England.
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Squanto
- The main difference he had from his fellow Native Americans was his ability and fluency in speaking English which he used in communicating with the pilgrims.
- He learned to speak English after being captured by English explorers and sold into slavery in Europe.
- He was thought to have been en
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Squanto
Squanto played an essential role in early American history, but it wasn’t by his choice. He grew up as a member of the Patuxet Native Indian tribe, learning to hunt with a bow and arrow and studying the culture of his people. He was kidnapped and taken to England, and scholars debate whether the intention was to sell him as a slave. Squanto learned English and acted as a teacher and interpreter for the English.
When the European explorers were covering the various areas of the New World, they explored with little or no respect for the Native Indians. Many were in search of gold, and when they couldn’t find gold, they kidnapped the natives to sell them into slavery.
Captain George Weymouth was one of the explorers, and he and his men captured Squanto. They took him to England, where he lived, eventually getting a job as a scout for Captain John Smith and as an interpreter.
In 1614, Smith was returning to the settlement to explore what is today’s Massachusetts, and he took Squanto with him on the trip.
After John Smith returned to English, he left a man named Thomas
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