page_title: Wampage
section_title: Later life
hierarchical_section_title: Wampage / Later life
caption_attribution_description: English: Privy Council ruling on Wampage I (John Wampus alias White) dated March 28, 1679, regarding Major Nathan Gold's refusal to honor contracts of sale between English colonists and Native Americans
context_page_description: Wampage I, also called Anhõõke and later John White, was a Sagamore of the Siwanoy Native Americans, who resided in the area now known as the Bronx and Westchester County, New York. He is most notable for his involvement in the murder of Anne Hutchinson and her fellow colonists in 1643.
  Some time after 1636, he married Prasque, daughter of Romaneck, the paramount chief over the Wappinger "confederacy". The Siwanoys, being one of the western bands of the Wappingers, were involved in Kieft's War and numerous disputes with the colony of New Netherland during Wampage’s chieftancy. He was later involved in a legal dispute with Connecticut Colony, which ultimately required Privy Council intervention. His name was variously spelled as Wamponneage, Wampage, Wampus and Wampers.
context_section_description: Around 1677, the elderly Wampage went to Fairfield to collect on a bill of sale of lands to residents of the town, which lands he had inherited from his father in law, the late Romaneck. Nathan Gold, then Fairfield's chief magistrate, had Wampage beaten and thrown into jail. Gold argued that the English held all lands by right of conquest and that contracts between the English and Indians had no validity. Sir John Pell, the second Lord of Pelham Manor, intervened on Wampage's behalf, and represented him before the Privy Council of the United Kingdom. The Council ruled in Wampage's favor on March 28, 1679, denouncing Gold's "evill practices" and finding that "not only [Wampage] but all such Indians of New England as are [the British monarch's] Subjects and submit peaceably and quietly to his Government shall likewise participate of his Royall Protection". 
  By the time of the ruling, Wampage and Prasque had been baptized, taking the names of John and Anne White, respectively. The Privy Council's ruling referred to him as "John Wampus alias White" and to his wife as "Anne the Daughter of Romanock late Sachem of Aspatuck & Sasquanaugh". Wampage died shortly thereafter, prior to July 1681. While his place of burial is not definitively known, one source claimed that a mound on the northern coast of Rodman's Neck was Wampage's final resting place.
caption: Privy Council ruling on Wampage I (John Wampus alias White)[5]
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