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Rumors
of Treachery on the Part of Miantonomo
News from Connecticut of Hostile Indian Alliance
Cutahamekin, Passaconaway, and Miantonomo are disarmed
Two
Sachems Desire to be Received Under Massachusetts Government Text
of the Agreement with the Sachems War
Between Uncas and Miantonomo Indian
War Against Uncas Prevented Mrs.
Hutchinson and her Family Killed by Indians Near Manhattan Pumham asks aid against the Narragansetts Peace arranged between the Mohegans and Narragansetts Uncas remonstrated
with for Attacking at Pequot River Rev. John Eliot's Methods of Instructing Indians Connecticut Paugaussett Indians
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Miantonomo Questioned 1642 This answer satisfied him. He gave divers reasons, why we should
hold him free of any such conspiracy, and why we should conceive it was a
report raised by Onkus, etc., and therefore offered to meet Onkus at
Connecticut, or rather at Boston, and would prove to his face his treachery
against the English, etc., and told us he would come to us at any time; for
though some had dissuaded him, assuring him, that the English would put him
to death, or keep him in prison, yet he being innocent of any ill intention
against the English, he knew them to be so just, as they would do him no
wrong, and told us, that if we sent but any Indian to him that he liked, he
would come to us, and we should not need to send ant of our own men. He
urged much, that those might be punished, who had raised this slander, and
put it to our consideration what damage it had been to him, in that he was
forced to keep his men at home, and not suffer them to go forth on hunting,
etc., till he had given the English satisfaction, and the charge and trouble
it had put the English unto, etc. We spent the better part of two days
in treating with him, and in conclusion he did accommodate himself to us to
our satisfaction; only some difficulty we had, to bring him to desert the
Nianticks, if we had just cause of war with them. They were, he said,
as his own flesh, being allied by continual intermarriages, etc. But at
last he condescended, that if they should do us wrong, as he could satisfy,
as if it were for blood, etc., then he would leave them to us. When we should go to
dinner, there was a table provided for the Indians, to dine by themselves,
and Miantunnomh was left to sit with them. This he was discontented at,
and would eat nothing, till the governor sent him meat from his table.
So at night, and all the time he staid, he sat at the lower end of the
magistrate's table. When he departed, we gave him and his counsellors
coats and tobacco, and when he came to take his leave, of the governor, and
such of the magistrates as were present, he returned, and gave his hand to
the governor again, saying, that was for the rest of the magistrates who were
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