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CONNECTICUT PAUGAUSSETT

INDIANS

 

     The Indians, at their first settlement, performed many acts of kindness towards them, (the settlers).  The Indians instructed them in the manner of planting and dressing the Indian corn. They carried them upon their backs, through rivers and waters; and, as occasion required, served them instead of boats and bridges.  They gave them much useful information respecting the country, and when the English or their children were lost in the woods, and were in danger of perishing with hunger and cold, they conducted them to their wigwams, fed them, and restored them to their families and parents..”  Benjamin Trumbull, History of Connecticut

 

 

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Connecticut Indian History

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PEQUOT SWAMP

 

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Lifestyles, Government, Religion and War
Indian Titles and Mohegan Land Troubles
Sowheag, Uncas, and Miantonomo
Owenoco, the Son of Uncas

 

THE HOUSATONIC

CHARD POWERS SMITH

 

The Promised Land
 Heathen in the Land
The Lord's Scouts

The Land and The Lord

The Next Seven Tribes

 

 

 

WINTHROP’S JOURNAL

 

HOMEPAGE

 

Rumors of Treachery on the Part of Miantonomo

 

Visit to Boston of Miantonomo

 

News from Connecticut of Hostile Indian Alliance

 

Cutahamekin, Passaconaway, and Miantonomo are disarmed

 

Miantonomo Questioned

 

War Between Dutch and Indians; Roger Williams a Peacemaker

 

Two Sachems Desire to be Received Under Massachusetts Government

 

Text of the Agreement with the Sachems

 

War Between Uncas and Miantonomo

 

Miantonomo Captured by Uncas

 

Indian War Against Uncas Prevented

 

Mrs. Hutchinson and her Family Killed by Indians Near Manhattan

 

Reverend Elliot’s Method of Teaching the Indians

 

Punham asks aid against the Narragansetts

 

Uncas remonstrated with for attacking at Pequot River

 

Peace arranged between the Mohegan and Narragansett

 

 

 

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September 25, 2004

 


    
The Indians in North western Connecticut were not large populations of Indians and but were small families called bands or clans.   The clans traveled seasonally from the shoreline in the summer, and north to higher grounds in the winter where they lived in rock shelters or small roundhouses. Most excerpts written during the time of the initial Indian encounters with the Dutch and the English tell of the Indians welcoming the protection of the colonists from the deadly Pequot and Mohawks who continually demanded tribute from these lesser clans. The Pequot and the Mohawk considered them conquered subjects from previous wars that occurred before the settling of the white man.  Therefore as conquered subjects tribute in the form of food when there was a shortage or wampum.

     Many of the Indian names we are familiar with today such as Paugaussett, Wepawaug, Pootatuck, and Weantick were not tribal names but were "place-names" the early settlers gave to lands the Indians used as temporary encampments.  Confusion has often arisen in the spelling of these place-names because many of the early settlers did not read or write well and would write the Indian words as they sounded.  Example of this can be found in the original land deeds between the settlers and Indians as well as the books on this website.  It is important to understand that the excerpts from the authors listed below are not taken from primary historical writings (excluding Winthrop’s Journal). Therefore these writings cannot be used as a basis for proving the existence of the Paugaussetts as a tribe or to establish a hereditary relationship between the natives that roamed these lands hundreds of years ago, and any present day people claiming Paugaussett ancestry.

 

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