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Squanto was born circa 1580 near Plymouth, Massachusetts.
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Squanto is believed to have been captured as a young man along the Maine coast in 1605 by Captain George Weymouth
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In 1614 squanto was kidnapped by English explorer Thomas Hunt who brought him to Spain where he was sold into slavery.
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Squanto escaped, eventually returning to North America in 1619.
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He returned to the Patuxet region where he became an interpreter and guide for the Pilgrim settlers at Plymouth in the 1620s.
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1621 the Pilgrims and Wampanoags celebrated the first thanksgiving after reaping a successful crop.
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He died circa November 1622 in Chatham, Massachusetts.