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SAMUEL ORCUTT
Golden Hill Indians
The Housatonic
The Wepawaug
Cupheags and Pequannock
Weantinock
Goodyear's Island
Indian Slaves
Indian Remnants
Indian Troubles
New Indian Papers
Wm. Howard Wilcoxson
Stratford
Indians
Trouble with
the Indians
Establishing
Title to the Land
Indian Deeds and
Relics
White Hills
Purchase
FORREST MORGAN
Lifestyles, Government, Religion and War Indian Titles and Mohegan Land Troubles Sowheag, Uncas, and Miantonomo Owenoco, the Son of Uncas
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CHARD POWERS SMITH
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ALEXANDER JOHNSTON
Connecticut Indian History
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Benjamin Trumbull- The History of Connecticut
Wampum
The Indians had no kind of
coin; but they had a sort of money, which they called wampum, or wampumpeag.
It consisted of small beads, most curiously wrought out of shells, and
perforated in the centre so that they might be strung on belts, in chains and
bracelets. New-England in general, made black, blue and whited wampum. Six of
the white beads passed for a penny, and three of the black or blue ones for
the same. The five nations made another sort, which were of a purple colour.
The white beads were wrought out of the inside of the great conchs, and the
purple out of the inside of the muscle shell. They were made perfectly
smooth, and the perforation was done in the neatest manner. Indeed,
considering that the Indians had neither knife, drill, nor any steel or iron
instrument, the workmanship was admirable. After the English settled in
Connecticut, the Indians strung these beads on belts of cloth, in a very
curious manner. The squaws made caps of cloth, rising to a peak over the top
of the head, and the fore part was beautified with wampum, curiously wrought
upon them. The six nations now weave and string them in broad belts, which
they give in their treaties, as a confirmation of their speeches and the
seals of their friendship
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BENJAMIN TRUMBULL
The Perfect Savages
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Wampum
Red Ochre
New Haven Colony
ALEXANDER JOHNSTON
Connecticut Indian History
The Pequot War
SOUTHPORT SWAMP
Great Swamp Fight
Incident at Mill River
Colonial History of Pequot Swamp
GUIDE TO PUTNAM
MEMORIAL CAMP
COLONIAL INDIAN ARCHIVES
Stratford
Colonial Land Deeds
Fairfield
Colonial Land Deeds
Derby Colonial
Land Deeds
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HISTORY OF GUILFORD
Hon. Ralph D.
Smith
A
HISTORY OF THE TOWNS
OF
HADDAM AND EAST HADDAM
David D. Fields
EARLY NEW HAVEN
Sarah
Day Woodward
Winthrop’s Journal
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