Wampanoagn.adj.

1676 R. Williams Let. 1 Apr. in B. F. Swan Copy of Let. of R. Williams (1971) 11 God has prospered us so that wee had had driven the Wampanoogs with Phillip out of his Countrie.

1782 J. H. St. J. de Crèvecoeur Lett. from Amer. Farmer iv. 144 Those powerful tribes..the..Massachusets, Wamponougs, Nipnets, Tarranteens, &c.—They are gone.

1820 J. W. Eastburn & R. C. Sands Yamoyden i. iii. 10 The Wampanoag from the height Of Haup, who strained his anxious sight [etc.].

1871 C. M. Yonge Pioneers & Founders i. 25 The Sachem nearest to Plymouth had been at the first arrival of the Pilgrim Fathers, Massasoiet, chief of the Wampanongs.

1910 F. W. Hodge Handbk. Amer. Indians II. 903/2 Wampanoag... One of the principal tribes of New England. Their proper territory appears to have been the peninsula on the E. shore of Narragansett bay now included in Bristol co., R.I., and the adjacent parts in Bristol co., Mass.

1980 Smithsonian Aug. 22 Red Wing's museum has some nice relics from early days when the Wampanoags & Narragansets..& Mohegans & Nipmucs ranged around southern New England.

1948 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 26 June 23/3 The township of Dartmouth had been purchased from Chief Massasoit, of the Wampanoag tribe.

1979 United States 1980–1 (Penguin Travel Guides) 642 There's also the Wampanoag Indian Museum.

1983 Times 3 Oct. 3/4 (caption) Slow Turtle, of the Wampanoag Nation, Massachusetts, at a ceremony on Hounslow Heath yesterday.