Simeon Simon was born in Pachaug in 1759, during the French and Indian Wars, and died in 1835 at the age of 76. A card file at the Providence Public Library in Rhode Island states that Simeon Simon was a (colored man). Noted at the bottom of this card is: (“Colored” as distinguished from Negro. He was said to have been a full blood American Indian, Wampanoag Tribe.)