Wequash Cooke

Wequash Cooke
Wequash Cook, Weekwash, Weekwosh, or Wequashcuk
Pequot leader
Personal details
Died1642
RelationsUncle, Ninigret

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.[1]

  1. ^ New England's First Fruits, London, Printed by R. O. and G.D. for Henry Overton, 1643 (republished 1865) (Google Books)