Waban (ca. 1604–ca. 1685) was a Native American of the Nipmuc group and was the first Native American to be converted to Christianity in Massachusetts.
Waban was born about 1604 at Musketaquid, near the present town of Concord. His conversion to Christianity came on October 28, 1646 (Julian calendar), when the missionary Reverend John Eliot preached his first sermon to Native Americans in their own language in Waban’s large wigwam in Nonantum, Massachusetts, and Waban and many of his tribe were converted.
Waban maintained close and friendly relations with the white settlers of Massachusetts and, in April 1675, reported to an English magistrate that trouble was brewing amongst the Wampanoags. Within two months, Waban’s predictions came to pass when a Wampanoag named Metacomet, known as “King Philip,” led his nation in the initially successful King Philip’s War. Metacomet’s subsequent death in August 1676 signalled the end of the brief war, and the rebellion soon collapsed due to a lack…
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