[2] Wonalancet's father, Passaconaway, would rise from sachem of the Pennacook to bashaba well before the time John Eliot hears the phrase when meeting with him at Pawtucket Falls in 1647.
In 1662 and 1663, Passaconaway and his sons Nanamocumuck and Wonalancet successfully petitioned for and were given lands between what is now Groton and Nashua in attempt to create a southern barrier between English settlement and the Pennacook heartland, which stretched to the north as far as the New Hampshire Lakes Region.
When increasing harassment from Massachusetts colonists led the rest of the Christian Wamesit "praying town" people to flee north, their sagamore, Nobhow (who had married one of Wonalancet's sisters, Bess) left a note for the English, "We go towards the French, we go where Wanalansit is.
Those who survived returned through the snow in January having not found Wonalancet, who had ostensibly fled to his wife's people (the Abenaki) to the north after the destruction of Pennacook by Mosely.
This party that was sent to slavery by Waldron included Wenepaweekin, Wonalancet's brother in law, the old sagamore of Naumkeg (Salem), who was the last living son of the Pawtucket Bashaba Nanepeshamet (who had died in 1619).
[2] Facing more direct harassment at Wickasaukee Island in 1677 from his English neighbors and their Mohawk allies from New York, Wonalancet moved north to the protection of Pennacook with the last 50 survivors of the Wamesit mission.
By this time he had abdicated his authority over what was left of his people to his older brother's son, Kankamagus, who would briefly be known as the Pennacook war chief while avenging the savagery and immorality of Captain Waldron and the English under his protection.
Waldron himself, who had bragged the night before that if attacked he could immediately rally 100 men to his defense, was ritually executed by multiple people he had wronged throughout his life.
This led Kankamagus to sign a peace treaty on the Kennebec delta that year, and he would finally remove his people to the protection of the French and Abenakian allies to the north.
Jonathan Tyng would step in and sponsor Wonalancet, essentially taking care of him in his old age while he waited out his death under "house arrest" rather than being sent into enslavement in Barbados.
Further, the perpetuation of the story that Wonalancet's sister Bess, wife of Nobhow, simply foolishly sold what became Lowell and Chelmsford to the English for the sum of four yards of Duffill and one pound of tobacco is shameful.