Monoco
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Monoco was a 17th century Nashaway sachem (chief), known among the New England Puritans as “One-eyed John”.
After decades of peaceful coexistence, the Nashaway attacked the neighboring English settlement of Lancaster, Massachusetts, in August 1675 and again in February 1676 as part of the more general native-settler conflict known as King Philip’s War. During the latter action, Monoco kidnapped a villager, Mary Rowlandson, who later wrote a best-selling narrative about her captivity and release.
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- Bourne, Russell (1990), The Red King's Rebellion: Racial Politics in New England, 1675-1678, Atheneum Publishers, pg 163 ff.
