Pecksuot

{{Short description|Massachusett war leader (d. c. 1623)}}

Pecksuot (died c. 1623) was a warrior of a Massachusett tribe led by Chickatawbut in the early 17th century until his death {{circa|1623}}. He was killed by Myles Standish either in 1624 in the battle at Wessagusset Colony (citation irretrievable){{Cite web|url=https://www.weymouth.ma.us/sites/weymouthma/files/file/file/native_american_history.pdf|title=Weymouth Indian History|last=Tremblay|first=Raymond "One Bear"|date=1972}} as immortalized in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem The Courtship of Miles Standish or, more probably, during a dinner arranged by Standish in 1623.{{Cite book |title=Mayflower: A Story of Community, Courage and War|last=Philbrick|first=Nathaniel|date=2006|place=New York |publisher=Penguin Books |isbn=978-0-14-311197-9 |url=https://archive.org/details/mayflower00nath|url-access=registration}}