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Wenanawon

Wenanawon was a signatory on a May 22, 1673 deed from the Tunxis to the English confirming former agreements and settling bounds of the plantation of Farmington. 

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Wasamagin

Wasamegin was a signatory on a May 22, 1673 deed from the Tunxis to the English confirming former agreements and settling bounds of the plantation of Farmington. 

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Shrowashk (wife of Tom)

Shrowashk was a Tunxis woman married to Tom. The couple had at least three children: Noketwo, Wasiasht, and Wequashk.  Shrowashk was a signatory on a May 22, 1673 deed from the Tunxis to the English confirming former agreements and settling bounds of the plantation of Farmington.  She sold three small islands at the southern corner of Indian Neck in 1687 and in 1708 with her daughters sold more land there in 1708.
 
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Ohehomhoot

Ohehomhoot was a signatory on a May 22, 1673 deed from the Tunxis to the English confirming former agreements and settling bounds of the plantation of Farmington. 
 
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Mamanto squa

Mamanto's wife was the daughter of Mattapauge.  Her name is currently unknown.  She was a signatory on a May 22, 1673 deed from the Tunxis to the English confirming former agreements and settling bounds of the plantation of Farmington. 
 
Sources for this biography come from the Related Digital Heritage Items listed below.

Wanuho

Wannoe was a signatory on a May 22, 1673 deed from the Tunxis to the English confirming former agreements and settling bounds of the plantation of Farmington. 
 
Sources for this biography come from the Related Digital Heritage Items listed below.

Queremus' Son

Queremus' son was a signatory on a May 22, 1673 deed from the Tunxis to the English confirming former agreements and settling bounds of the plantation of Farmington. 

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Haramamon

Haramamon was a signatory on a May 22, 1673 deed from the Tunxis to the English confirming former agreements and settling bounds of the plantation of Farmington. 

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Wawowos Wampey, Eunice

Eunice Wawowos was the first wife of Elijah Wampey.  Given that Wampey's second wife's daughter, Eunice, the youngest of all known Wampey children, was born in 1764, the elder Eunice most likely had died before that date.
 
Love, Samson Occom and the Christian Indians of New England, 364

Wampey, Elijah, Jr., 1765 -

Born in 1765, Elijah Wampey, Jr. was the son of Elijah Wampey, Sr, of Farmington, Connecticut. He married widow Elizabeth Peters and had two children Clarinda and Elijah (b. 1794).  The family lived on Lot 15 at Brothertown, New York, where Wampey died around 1812.
 
Love, Samson Occom and the Christian Indians of New England, 365.  Additional sources for this biography come from the Related Digital Heritage Items listed below.