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quarter-blood Wampanoag named Samuel Look
(Banks 1911, vol. 3, p. 141), who for the
purposes of this chronicle will hereinafter be
referred to as Indian Samuel. He was born in
1702 at Tisbury on Martha's Vineyard Isle
(Figure 2), the son of Alice (called Ellis) Daggett,
a half-blood Wampanoag and Samuel Look,
Sr., a white man. Though unwed, Ellis had
three children: Black Henry Luce, Samuel
Look and Patience Allen, each by a different
father. White-eyed Henry Luce, father of
Black Henry, was convicted of fathering Ellis
Daggett's child on March 3, 1696 (Dukes
County Court Records), and Samuel Look, Sr.,
father of Indian Samuel, was convicted of
fathering her second child by the Court of
Common Pleas on October 8, 1702 (Dukes
County Court Records).
In 1685, Hester and Ellis Daggett,
sisters, were granted lands at Eastville on the
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Gardner: Aboriginal Artifact from Martha's Vineyard
north side of Ogkashkepbeh (Figure 2) by
Puttuspaquin, "for the natural love and affection
to them being of my near kindred." They are
called "cousins II but were actually grandnieces
of Puttuspaquin, last Sachem of Sanchakantackett,
now Oak Bluffs and Edgartown (Dukes
Country Deeds, 1685 Bk. 1, p. 251). Ellis
Daggett, in her will of March 19, 1711 (Dukes
County Probate Records 1663-1853) bequeathed
her remaining Indian lands to Black Henry.
In the same 1711 will, Indian Samuel is
described as, "my son, commonly called Samuel
Look, now living with Zachary Horse (Hossueit,
Howwaswee) of the Indian Town in Tisbury"
(Christiantown). This Zachary Hossueit
was the noted Indian minister, later of Gay
Head, who wrote and preached in the native
language. Many of the documents in Native
Writings in Massachusett, by Ives Goddard and
Kathleen Bragdon ofthe Smithsonian, are in his
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Figure 2. Sketch map showing Indian places named in the text at Martha's Vineyard (from Dukes
County deeds; Banks 1911; Norton 1923:50; Old Map [Travers 1960]).
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