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Squanto: Patuxet Indian born around 1592, a hundred years after what? Columbus sailed the ocean blue.
1605 Squanto was captured, taken to England, treated well (as well as one can be treated while being held captive), taught English language and customs, the plan was to make him a guide for New World explorers
1614 during his return to America, Squanto was abducted and taken to Spain to be sold as a slave. Purchased by Franciscan Friars and eventually returned to the New World…1619.
Early 1620 he finally returns to the area of his birth, near what is now Plymouth,… Continue reading