Shawanórõckquot

{{Short description|Wiechquaeskeck sachem}}

Shawanórõckquot (fl. 1636–1666), also referred to as Janorocket,{{cite book |last1=Assembly |first1=New York (State) Legislature |title=Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York |date=1910 |page=71 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TOlKAAAAMAAJ |access-date=21 January 2022 |language=en}} Shenarock or Shenarockwell,{{cite book |last1=Baird |first1=Charles Washington |title=Chronicle of a border town : history of Rye, Westchester county, New York, 1660–1870, including Harrison and the White Plains till 1788 |date=1871 |publisher=New York : A.D.F. Randolph and Company |page=502 |url=https://archive.org/details/chronicleofborde00bair/page/502/mode/2up?ref=ol&q=shenorock&view=theater |access-date=21 January 2022}} and Sauwenare or Sawenaroque, was a Wiechquaeskeck sachem who negotiated land sales in Westchester County between 1636 and 1666, including the Pell Indian Deed with Thomas Pell.{{cite book |last1=Grumet |first1=Robert S. |title=Beyond Manhattan: A Gazetteer of Delaware Indian History Reflected In Modern-Day Place Names |publisher=New York State Museum |url=http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/common/nysm/files/nysmrecord-vol5-1.pdf |access-date=21 January 2022 |archive-date=3 March 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220303023206/http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/common/nysm/files/nysmrecord-vol5-1.pdf |url-status=dead }} There are many written variations of his name due to different phonetic representations.

Shawanórõckquot was a leader in Kieft's War against the Dutch in the 1640s.{{cite book |title=Smoke Signals, Bound Vols. 7–9 |publisher=Indian Association of America |page=20 |date=1955}} In the 1660s, Shawanórõckquot was imprisoned by the Dutch at Fort Amsterdam. He was released after local chiefs refused to negotiate with Dutch officials until he was freed.{{cite book |last1=Brodhead |first1=John Romeyn |title=Documents Relative to the Colonial History of the State of New-York: new ser., v. 2 . Documents relating to the history and settlements of the towns along the Hudson and Mohawk rivers (with the exception of Albany), from 1630 to 1684, 1881 |date=1881 |publisher=Weed, Parsons |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VggMAAAAYAAJ&dq=Sauwenar&pg=PA147 |access-date=21 January 2022 |language=en}}