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MIANTONOMO ( ? -1643)

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 354 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MIANTONOMO ( ? -1643)  , See also:chief of the Narraganset tribe of See also:North See also:American See also:Indians, See also:nephew of their See also:grand sachem, Canonicus (d . 1647) . He seems to have been friendly to the See also:English colonists of See also:Massachusetts and See also:Connecticut, though he was accused of being treacherous . In 1636, when under suspicion, he went to See also:Boston to prove his See also:loyalty to the colonists . In the following See also:year he permitted See also:John See also:Mason to See also:lead his Connecticut expedition against the Pequot Indians through the Narraganset See also:country, and in 1638 he signed for the Narraganset the tripartite treaty between that tribe, the Connecticut colonists and the Mohegan Indians, which provided for a perpetual See also:peace between the parties, and he agreed to take under his See also:jurisdiction eighty of the two See also:hundred troublesome Pequot . In 1643 a See also:quarrel See also:broke out between the Mohegan and the Narraganset, and See also:Miantonomo led his warriors against those of Uncas, the Mohegan sachem . He was defeated and captured at what is now See also:Norwich, See also:Conn., was turned over to the Connecticut authorities, and was later tried at Boston by the commissioners of the See also:United Colonies of New See also:England . A See also:committee of five clergymen, to whom his See also:case was referred, recommended that he be executed, and the commissioners accordingly sentenced him to See also:death and See also:chose Uncas as his executioner . Miantonomo, who was kept in See also:ignorance of this See also:sentence, was taken to the See also:scene of his defeat and was there tomahawked in See also:cold See also:blood by Wawequa, the See also:brother of Uncas . There is a See also:monument to Miantonomo in Sachem's See also:Park, Norwich, Conn .

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