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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Gorton, Samuel 1600-1677 (search)
eached such heterodox doctrines that he was banished as a heretic in the winter of 1637-38. With a few followers he went to Rhode Island, where he was publicly whipped for calling the magistrates just-asses, and other rebellious acts. In 1641 he was compelled to leave the island. He took refuge with Roger Williams at Providence, but soon made himself so obnoxious there that he escaped public scorn by removing (1642) to a spot on the west side of Narraganset Bay, where he bought land of Miantonomoh and planted a settlement. The next year inferior sachems disputed his title to the land; and, calling upon Massachusetts to assist them, an armed force was sent to arrest Gorton and his followers, and a portion of them were taken to Boston and tried as damnable heretics. For a while they endured confinement and hard labor, in irons, and in 1644 they were banished from the colony. Gorton went to England and obtained from the Earl of Warwick an order that the clergyman and his followers
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Miantonomoh, 1632- (search)
Miantonomoh, 1632- King of the Narraganset Indians; born in Rhode Island: nephew of Canonicus and Ninegret (qq. v.). As early as 1632 he visited Boston with his wife and stayed two nights. He went to church with the English. Governor Winthrop took Miantonomoh and his attendants to his home and made much of them. In 1637 he assisted the English in the war with the Pequod Indians (q. v.).t a rivalry between the Mohegans and Narragansets, and Uncas was induced to insult and injure Miantonomoh as much as it was in his power to do. When Uncas pressed hard upon Miantonomoh, the latter maMiantonomoh, the latter made war. The Narragansets were beaten and their sachem was made prisoner. Uncas conveyed him to the English at Hartford, where, by the advice and consent of the magistrates and elders of the Church, Mohegans. His death left an indelible stain upon the Connecticut authorities. The names of Miantonomoh and Canonicus have been given to two vessels in the new navy of the United States, the first
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Navy of the United States (search)
Puritan6,060Double-turretS.3,700T. S.10 Olympia5,870Protected cruiserS.17,313T. S.14 Chicago5,000Protected cruiserS.9,000T. S.18 Second rate Buffalo6,888Cruiser (converted)S.3,600S.6 Dixie6,145Cruiser (converted)S.3,800S.10 Baltimore4,413Protected cruiserS.10,064T. S.10 Philadelphia4,324Protected cruiserS.1,815T. S.12 Newark4,098Protected cruiserS.8,869T. S.12 San Francisco4,098Protected cruiserS.9,913T. S.12 Monterey4,084Barbette cruiser, low free-board monitorS.5,244T. S.4 Miantonomoh3,990Double-turret monitorI.1,426T. S.4 Amphitrite3,990Double-turret monitorI.1,600T. S.6 Monadnock3,990Double-turret monitorI.3,000T. S.6 Terror3,990Double-turret monitorI.1,600T. S.4 Albany3,437Protected cruiserS. W.7,500T. S.10 New Orleans3,437Protected cruiserS. W.7,500T. S.10 Lancaster3,250CruiserW.1,000S.12 Cincinnati3,213Protected cruiserS.10,000T. S.11 Raleigh3,213Protected cruiserS.10,000T. S.11 Reina Mercedes3,090Protected cruiserS.3,700S.11 Atlanta3,000Protected cruise
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), New Netherland. (search)
ordered the West Indian Company to take measures to relieve the people, but the corporation was bankrupt and powerless The immediate purpose of the Eight Men was gained, for Kieft was ordered to Holland, and Lubbertus Van Dincklagen, the former sheriff, was appointed provisional governor, until the commission of Peter Stuyvesant was issued in May, 1645. Uncas, the Mohegan sachem, always bent on mischief, spread a report, in the spring of 1653, that Ninegret, a Niantic sachem, uncle of Miantonomoh, had visited New Amsterdam during the preceding winter, and had arranged with the Dutch governor (Stuyvesant) a plot for a general insurrection of the natives and the murder of the New England settlers. The story caused such alarm (England had just declared war against Holland) that the commissioners of the New England confederacy assembled in special session at Boston in May. They sent messengers to Ninegret and Pessacus to inquire into the matter, and envoys and a letter to Governor S
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Ninegret, (search)
Ninegret, Chief of the Narraganset Indians, and uncle of Miantonomoh (q. v.). He aided the English in the Pequod War (1637). Because of a supposed plot between Ninegret and the Dutch, the commissioners or Congress of the New England Confederation deemed it advisable to make war upon him. They voted 250 footsoldiers (1653). The commissioners of Massachusetts did not agree with the others in the measure. Ninegret prosecuted a war with the Long Island Indians, who had placed themselves under the protection of the English. In September. 1654, the commissioners sent a message to Ninegret, demanding his appearance at Hartford, where they were convened, and the payment of a tribute long due for the Pequods under him. He refused to appear, and sent them a haughty answer. They therefore determined again to make war on him. They raised 270 infantry and forty horsemen. Maj. Simon Willard was appointed commander-in-chief of these forces, with instructions to proceed directly to Ninegret'
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Shawomet, War at (search)
ace in New England, had been whipped from colony to colony, and had settled at Shawomet (afterwards Warwick), R. I., on land ceded to him and a few followers by Miantonomoh. The settlement consisted of twelve men and their wives and children. Two Indian chiefs, claiming to be independent, protested against the cession, and appeal by personal animosity. He entered complaints against the Shawomet settlers. Massachusetts assumed authority over that portion of Rhode Island. They summoned Miantonomoh to Boston, and on incompetent testimony it was adjudged that he had no right to sell the land. Then the Gorton colony were summoned to Boston. They replied thpunishment of being put at hard labor, each with irons upon one leg, and commanded that they should not by word or writing maintain any of their blasphemous or wicked errors upon pain of death. The Narragansets, under the lead of Miantonomoh, took up the quarrel in their way, and it proved the ruin of that chief. See Miantonomoh.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Uncas, 1588-1682 (search)
Uncas, 1588-1682 Mohegan chief; born in the Pequot Settlement, Conn., about 1588; was originally a Pequot sachem, but about 1635 he revolted against Sassacus and Uncas's monument. gathered a band of Indians who were known by the name of Mohegans, the ancient title of his nation. He joined the English in their war with the Pequots in 1637, and received for his services a portion of the Pequot territory. When the war was over, Uncas shielded many of the Pequots from the wrath of the English, and incurred the enmity of the colonists for a time; but the white people soon gave him their confidence, and treated him with so much distinction that jealous Indians tried to assassinate him. For this treachery Uncas conquered one of the sachems in Connecticut, and in 1643 he overpowered the Narragansets and took Miantonomoh prisoner. He died in what is now Norwich, Conn., in 1682. See Miantonomoh.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Massachusetts (search)
e Indians near Block Island......July, 1636 Expedition sent, under command of John Endicott, to punish the Indians of Block Island for the murder of John Oldham......1636 Pequod War begins......August, 1636 General Court of Massachusetts agrees to give £ 400 towards a school or college......Oct. 28, 1636 Roger Williams baffles the Pequods by an alliance with the Narraganset Indians, leaving the Pequods single-handed against the English, visiting the sachem of the Narragansets, Miantonomoh, near Newport, while the Pequod ambassadors were there in council......December, 1636 John Winthrop chosen governor of Massachusetts......1637 Capt. John Mason, with some sixty men from the Connecticut colony, and Capt. John Underhill, with twenty men from the Massachusetts colony, accompanied by 200 Narraganset warriors, attack the Pequod fort on the Mystic, capture and destroy it with all its occupants, numbering 600 and over......May 26, 1637 Gov. Henry Vane returns to England