See also: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)
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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
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In 1636, when under suspicion, he went to See also:Boston to prove his See also:loyalty to the colonists
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In the following See also:year he permitted See also:John See also:- MASON, FRANCIS (1799—1874)
- MASON, GEORGE (1725—1792)
- MASON, GEORGE HEMMING (1818–1872)
- MASON, JAMES MURRAY (1798-1871)
- MASON, JOHN (1586-1635)
- MASON, JOHN YOUNG (1799-1859)
- MASON, LOWELL (1792—1872)
- MASON, SIR JOHN (1503–1566)
- MASON, SIR JOSIAH (1795-1881)
- MASON, WILLIAM (1725—1797)
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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There is a See also:monument to Miantonomo in Sachem's See also:Park, Norwich, Conn
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