Larry W Jones

Squanto - The Patuxet Pilgrim Larry W Jones

Squanto was of the Pawtuxet people in present-day Massachusetts and Rhode Island. He was seized with other Indians and taken to Málaga, Spain, to be sold into slavery. Squanto somehow escaped to England and joined the Newfoundland Company. He returned home in 1619 on his second trip back to North America only to find that his people had been wiped out by disease. During the spring of 1621, Squanto was brought to the new Pilgrim settlement of Plymouth. He soon became a member of the Plymouth Colony. Because Squanto was fluent in English, Gov. William Bradford made him his Indian emissary and interpreter. Readers will be enthralled with "Squanto - The Patuxet Pilgrim" as history unfolds in revealing detail.