{{Short description|Eastern Niantic chief sachem}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Wepitanock | native_name = | native_name_lang = xpq | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | nickname = | office = Eastern Niantic leader | term_start = | term_end = | predecessor = | successor = | birth_name = | birth_date = | birth_place = | death_date = after 1651 | death_place = | death_cause = | resting_place = | known_for = | battles = | office2 = Chief Sachem | party = | education = | spouse = | partner = | children = Harman Garrett, Wequash Cooke | parents = | relations = siblings: Quaiapen, Ninigret | blank1 = Mother tongue | data1 = | module = | signature = | footnotes = }} '''Wepitanock''' (also known as '''Momojosbuck''' or '''Wettamozo''' or '''Aquawoce''') (died after 1651) was an Eastern Niantic chief sachem in the area around Rhode Island and Connecticut.
Wepitanock was likely Canonicus' nephew and was the older brother of Ninigret with whom he shared power.<ref>LaFantasie, Glenn W., ed. ''The Correspondence of Roger Williams,'' University Press of New England, 1988, Vol. 1, p.77(n).</ref> His sister was Queen Quaiapen. Wepitanock had at least one wife (whose name is unknown but who may have been a Pequot as she is referred to as a "stranger"). Roger Williams describes Wepitanock as Miantonomi's brother-in-law. Wepitanock had at least four sons and one daughter, who married her uncle Ninigret.<ref>LaFantasie, 77</ref> Wepitanock's sons were Harman Garrett and Wequash Cooke and Tomtico and another unnamed son who died in 1650 according to Roger Williams.<ref>LaFantasie, 324.</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Forest |first=John William De |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hNxf4YjU35AC |title=History of the Indians of Connecticut from the Earliest Known Period to 1850 |date=1853 |publisher=W. J. Hammersley |language=en}}</ref> After Wepitanock's death Ninigret contested the claims to power of Wepitanock's sons because they were only half Niantic.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Thatcher |first=Benjamin Bussey |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Lw0TAAAAYAAJ |title=Indian Biography, Or, An Historical Account of Those Individuals who Have Been Distinguished Among the North American Natives as Orators, Warriors, Statesmen, and Other Remarkable Characters |date=1832 |publisher=J. & J. Harper |language=en}} </ref>
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Category:17th-century Native American leaders Category:Niantic people Category:Native American people from Rhode Island Category:People from colonial Rhode Island