Wequash Cooke | |
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Wequash Cook, Weekwash, Weekwosh, or Wequashcuk | |
Pequot leader | |
Personal details | |
Died | 1642 |
Relations | Uncle, 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]