The Database for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color in Wells, Kennebunk, Kennebunkport and Arundel

Ramanascho


Other names: old Webb

Status (enslaved, free or both): free

Town: Wells

Known dates: 1649

Ramanascho was the mother of Sagamore Thomas Chabinocke who left his rights in the property known as Nampscoscoke after his death to John Wadleigh of Wells. According to Bourne's account, she provided her consent to this agreement and was "given a consideration."

Edward Bourne recounts that in 1649, an agreement was signed by various parties by which "Sagimore Thomas Chabinocke, of Nampscoscoke, by virtue of his last will and testament, had given and bequeathe ... unto John Wadleigh of Wells, to him, his heirs and successors, and that forever, of his own accord, and with the consent of his mother, Ramanascho, to whom the said Wadleigh has given a consideration, .... to be inherited presently after the death of said Sagamore, all that the Sagamore, with his whole right, title, and interest, called by the name of Nampscoscoke, bounded between Nogimcoth and Kennebunk, and up as high as Cape Porpoise Falls, and the same, with all the profits, commodities and appurtenances, against all men to warrant and defend." - Bourne, pp. 21-22

"John Wadlow, or Wadleigh, also removed to Wells before 1650. An Indian Sagamore, named Thomas Chabinocke, devised to Wadleigh 'all his title and interest of Nampscascoke', comprising the greater part of Wells; with a condition that he should allow one bushel of Indian corn annually to the 'Old Webb,' his mother, as long as she lived. The extent of the tract was from the sea as far up as 'the great falls on Cape Porpoise (Mousam) river', and from Negunket to Kennebunk river. The Sagamore seems to have died 1649, in which year Wadleigh took legal possession of his lands." - Folsom, p. 120

Bibliography:

The History of Wells and Kennebunk from the Earliest Settlement to the Year 1820 - by Edward Bourne (1875)

Collections of the Maine Historical Society, Volume 1 (1865)

The History of Saco and Biddeford - George Folsom (1830)


Thomas Chabinocke - 1649 deed to John Wadleigh

the property known as Nampscoscoke

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