Onepenny, Sarah, 1640 - 1713
Sarah Onepenny I was the daughter of Nquittomaug (Onepenny) and Sepunnamo and the granddaughter of Sowheag, the sachem of Hartford. Sarah married Pewampskin and had several children: Siana, Nanamaroos, Kickemus, Alice Onepenny, Sarah Onepenny II, and Cushoy. A leader of the Wangunk community herself, she owned land in Windsor, Wethersfield, Middletown, and Hartford.
In the fall of 1673, Sarah, her father, and sister Hannah conveyed hundreds of acres to authorities in Wethersfield, Connecticut in a transaction known as the "Eastbury deed". Towards the end of King Philip's War, Connecticut authorities sent Sarah and her family to Shetucket where they were held for a decade. When they returned to their homeland, she sold land in Windsor in 1686. Six years later, when her cousin, Mary Mcumpas, had a child with Mingoe, an African American slave of Thomas Olmstead, Mary recorded her desire to have the child given to Sarah rather to Olmstead. In 1714, Sarah left her land and personal estate in Hartford's South End to her grandson, Scipio Two Shoes, while instructing her sons to sell her Middletown land to settle her debts.
Hermes & Maravel, "Finding the Onepennys among the Wongunk, BASC (2017): 95-101.
Born:
1640Died:
1713