[5] He was kin to the Squaw Sachem of Mystic, but may have been orphaned at a young age and raised in an English family along with his brother Thomas.
[2] He aided English colonists in recruiting Praying Indians interned on Deer Island to spy upon the Narragansett and Wampanoag, and embedded himself as a spy for the colonies, later returning intelligence to the English colonists of Massachusetts Bay regarding a planned attack on Lancaster, Massachusetts.
[3] After Sagamore George's death, several members of the Natick community later testified that he entrusted the care of Naumkeag lands to James Quonopohit.
[3] In 1686, James II nullified prior colonial English charters and declared the Dominion of New England.
This precipitated a rush by New England towns to formally codify their claims to land through quitclaim deeds from indigenous groups.