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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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Two Sachems desire to be received under
Massachusetts Government 1643 Sacononoco and Pumham, two sachems near Providence, having under them
between 2 and 300 men, finding themselves overborne by Miantunnomoh, the
sachem of Narragansett and Gorton and his company, who had so prevailed
with Miantunnomoh, as he forced one of them to join with him in setting his
hand or mark to a writing, wherby a part of his land was sold to Gorton and
his company, for which Miantunnomoh received a price, but the other would not
receive that which was for his part, alleging that he did not intend to sell
his land, though through fear of Miantunnomoh he had put his mark to the
writing, they came to our governor, and by Benedict Arnold their interpreter,
did desire we would receive them under our government, and brought withal a
small present of wampom, about ten fathom. The governor gave them
encouragement, but referred them to the court, and received their present,
intending to return it them again, if the court should not accord to them;
but at the present he aquainted another of the magistrates with it. So
it was agreed, and they wrote to Gorton and his company to let them know what
the sachems had complained of, and how they had tendered themselves to come
under our jurisdiction, and therfore if they had any thing to allege against
it, they chould come or send to our next court. We sent also to
Maintunnomoh to signify the same to him. Whereupon, in the beginning of
the court, Miantunnomoh came to Boston, and being demanded in open court,
before divers of his own men and Cutshamekin and other Indians, whether he
had any interest in the said two sachems as his subjects, he could prove
none. cutshamekin and other Indians, whether he had any interest in the
said two sachems as his subjects, could prove none. Sutshamekin also in
his presence affirmed, that he had no interest in them, but they were as free
sachems as himeself; only because he was a great sachem, they had
sometime sent him presents, and aided him in his war against the Pequots: and
Benedict Arnold affirmed, partly upon his own knowledge, and partly upon the
relation of divers Indians of those parts, that the Indians belonging to
these sachems did usually pay their deer skins (which are a tribute belonging
to the chief sachem) always to them, and never to Miantunnomoh or any other
sachem of the Narragansett, which Miantunnomoh could not contradict.
Whereupon it was referred to the governor and some ofhter of the
magistrates and deputies to send for the two sachems after the court, and to
treat with them about their receiving in to us.
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