Quonopohit facts for kids

Quonopohit (1636—1712), also known as James Quannapowit, James Quanophkownatt, and James Rumney Marsh, was the successor to whom Wenepoykin, sachem of the Naumkeag people, willed his territories in modern day northeastern Massachusetts at the time of his death in 1684. He is known for deeding these lands to a number of Massachusetts towns in the 1680s, including Marblehead (1684), Lynn, Saugus, Swampscott, Lynnfield, Wakefield, North Reading, and Reading (1686), Salem (1687). He is the namesake of Lake Quannapowitt in Wakefield, Massachusetts.