hide
Named Entity Searches
hide
Matching Documents
The documents where this entity occurs most often are shown below. Click on a document to open it.
Browsing named entities in Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing). You can also browse the collection for Miantonomoh or search for Miantonomoh in all documents.
Your search returned 14 results in 8 document sections:
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Gorton , Samuel 1600 -1677 (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)
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'
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.