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George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter 9: (search)
the tyranny of the Mohawks; the May 16. son of the aged Canonicus exchanged presents with July 13. the governor; and Miantonomoh himself, the great warrior of the Narragansetts, the youthful colleague 1632 Aug. 5. of Canonicus, became a guest at in the territory of the Narragansett Indians; it was not long before an Indian deed from Canonicus 1638. Mar. 24. and Miantonomoh Bakus, i 89, 90. Knowles, 106, 107 Backus. made him the undisputed possessor of an extensive domain. Nothing dispcomed them to his vicinity; and his own 1638. Mar. 24. influence, and the powerful name of Henry Vane, prevailed with Miantonomoh, the chief of the Narragansetts, to obtain for them a gift of the beautiful island of Rhode Island. The spirit of they escort, repaired to the court of Canonicus, the patriarch and ruler of the tribe; and the younger and more fiery 23 Miantonomoh, surrounded by two hundred of his bravest warriors, received them in council. Your design, said he, is good; but your
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter 10: (search)
} 1643 the less numerous Mohegans. Anger and revenge brooded in the mind of Miantonomoh. He hated the Mohegans, for they were the allies of the English, by whom he of a treaty to which the English were parties, Hubbard's Indian Wars, 42 Miantonomoh, accompanied by a thousand warriors, fell upon the Mohegans. But his movemewas death. Yet Gorton and his friends, who held their lands by a grant from Miantonomoh, Interceded for their benefactor. The unhappy chief was conducted to Hartfon men for taking the life of one Indian: and the elders, to whom the case of Miantonomoh was referred, finding that he had, deliberately and in time of quiet, murderuments of Hopkins, and Savage, and Staples, of Davis and Holmes. So perished Miantonomoh, the friend of the exiles from Massachusetts, the faithful benefactor of the fathers of Rhode Island. The tribe of Miantonomoh burned to avenge the execution of their chief; but they feared a conflict with the English, whose alliance they