[1] His brothers, Montowampate and Wonohaquaham, died during the 1633 smallpox epidemic, and he became Sachem of Lynn, Massachusetts and Chelsea, Massachusetts (which also included the present-day towns of Reading, North Reading, Lynnfield, Saugus, Swampscott, Nahant, Wakefield, Marblehead, Revere, and Winthrop, as well as Deer Island).
[1] On April 1, 1652, he sold Nahant to Nicholas Davison of Charlestown for "twenty pounds sterling dew many yeer".
[1] After King Philip's War Natick pastor Daniel Takawombait invoked "George's homecoming in the course of remembering Native lineages around Naumkeag (Salem), in order to attest to postwar Native landholdings,"[7] and in his deposition Tookumwombait stated that "Sagamore George when he came from Barbados he lived Sometime and dyed at the house of James Rumley Marsh,"[8][9] and "he left all this land belonging to him unto his kinsman James Rumley Marsh.
His family lived in the Lynn area until the time of King Philip's War, when the settled near Pawtucket Falls in Wameset (present day Chelmsford, Massachusetts).
Following Wenepoykin's death, the colonists of Marblehead, Salem, and Lynn were able to obtain deeds for their towns from his heirs.