Tisquantum, also known as Squanto, was born at Patuxet, a Wampanoag community that later became the site of the Pilgrims’ settlement at Plymouth. After being stolen from Patuxet and sold into slavery in Spain, he was freed and spent five years as a servant in London and Newfoundland. When he returned home about 1619, he found his community decimated by disease, while he himself had been spared while living in London. Because he had learned to speak English, he became a liaison between Native people and the Pilgrims who arrived on the Mayflower in 1620, and during the Pilgrims’ first winter and spring he taught them to catch eels and grow corn by fertilizing poor soil with dried herring and shad. Governor William Bradford called him “a special instrument sent by God for their good beyond their expectation,” though some said he was pursuing intrigues of his own, and the Wampanoag sachem Massasoit came to hate him. In November 1622, Tisquantum traveled with Bradford from Plymouth to Chatham, then known as Monomoit, to trade with the Monomoyicks for eight hogsheads of corn and beans. Their sloop, the Swan, anchored in Pleasant Bay, perhaps at Jackknife Cove, about a quarter of a mile from here. Just before departure he fell ill, bleeding from the nose, and within a few days he died near here. He asked Bradford to pray that he might go to the Englishmen’s God in Heaven, and after his death he was placed in an unmarked grave; one theory holds that he was buried at Jackknife Cove at Pleasant Bay.