The Colony of Connecticut was not to be entirely relieved of her Indian troubles by the termination of the Pequot War. The planters of Wethersfield demanded the punishment of the perpertrators of the massacre which occurred in their plantation in 1637, and accused Sowheag the Indian Sachem of instigating the outrage and of concealing the murderers. Sowheag had removed to Mattabesett (now Middletown), and lived in a fort situated on high ground, three-quarters of a mile northwest of the present court-house. His tribe consisted of from three to four hundred warriors, thickly located on the banks of the Connecticut River. His authority extended over the Wethersfield Indians, and one of his sons was a Sagamore of that tribe from which the New Haven colonists made their original purchase. Sowheag paid no attention to the English demands for the surrender of the murderers, and the colonists decided to follow their requests by recourse to arms. It was determined to raise a company of one hundred men, and notification was given to the New Haven settlers that hostilities were to begin. The cautious executive of the New Haven colony remonstrated with the Connecticut authorities, urging that the colonists needed their men and means to develop the country. Connecticut acceded to this voice of reason, and matters were amicably arranged between Sowheag and the Wethersfield planters.