Wannalancet and the Pennacook Tribe

King Philip’s War and after:

• We know that during the war, the Pennacooks wanted to remain neutral, but came under scrutiny.
• The English eventually moved to Pennacook which was around Concord, where Wannalancet learned about this and had his people hide from them.
• Where some of the troops had been lured by the peace treaty by the English at Dover, that led to their capture. “Four hundred Pennacooks [were] captured and sold into slavery” as a way for the English to cover the costs of war.
• This led to many tribesmen going to the French at St. Francis, in Quebec, at an Abenaki reservation.
• “The decimated Pennacooks were transferred to Wickasaukee and Chelmsford, where they were under the supervision of Mr. Jonathan Tyng of Dunstable.” 
• - Later, during 1685, he[Wannalancet] announced a peace treaty that his band of “twenty-four [people] beside squaws and papooses… had no intention of making war upon the English.” 
• -His name wasn’t put in the treaty, “which seems to prove that he was no longer the recognized leader.”

Wannalancet’s Last Years:

• During 1689, he repeated the same notion of peace, “then returned to St. Francis shortly after.”
• Nine years later, he went to live under Jonathan Tyng, “this time at Wamesit”.
• ”He is reported as having transferred his lands, the last of his once vast domain, to his keeper[John Tyng].”. With deeds having dates of 1696 and 1697 given to Tyng.
• ”Whether he went back to St. Francis or died in his own country is not definitely known[according to this article]; the time of his death also is unknown. He is believed to have been buried in the private cemetery of the Tyng family, in Tyngsboro, Mass."”
• There is a rock in IACS, to commemorate where Wannalancet might have been buried.
• Both the Pennacook and Wannalancet are recognized as important figures in Tyngsborough and many parts of Massachusetts for how they dwelled during these lands before the European settlers. Ways that wannalancet is recognized is through the rock, as well as the markers that with his name on them showing his prominence and impact on the land.