Samoset
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thumb|upright=1.1|The cover of the 1853 book, Interview of Samoset with the Pilgrims, depicting Samoset meeting the Pilgrim|Pilgrims Samoset (also Somerset, – ) was an Abenaki sagamore and the first American Indian to make contact with the Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony in New England. He startled the colonists on March 16, 1621, by walking into Plymouth Colony and greeting them in English, saying "Welcome, Englishmen."
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thumb|upright=1.1|The cover of the 1853 book, Interview of Samoset with the Pilgrims, depicting Samoset meeting the Pilgrim|Pilgrims Samoset (also Somerset, – ) was an Abenaki sagamore and the first American Indian to make contact with the Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony in New England. He startled the colonists on March 16, 1621, by walking into Plymouth Colony and greeting them in English, saying "Welcome, Englishmen."
==History== Samoset was a sagamore, or subordinate chief, of an Eastern Abenaki tribe that resided in Maine. An English fishing camp had been established in the Gulf of Maine, where Samoset learned some English from fishermen who came to fish off Monhegan Island, coming to know most local ship captains by name.