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Sassacus,
Indian chief; born near Groton, Conn., about 1560; chief of the Pequod Indians, feared greatly by the settlers of the New England coast.
In 1637 his tribe murdered several women at Wethersfield, and took two girls captive.
On June 5, 1637, the colonists attacked the Pequod settlement on the Mystic River and won a victory.
Sassacus, however, escaped to the Mohawks, by whom he was murdered the same month.
Sassacus,
Indian chief; born near Groton, Conn., about 1560; chief of the Pequod Indians, feared greatly by the settlers of the New England coast.
In 1637 his tribe murdered several women at Wethersfield, and took two girls captive.
On June 5, 1637, the colonists attacked the Pequod settlement on the Mystic River and won a victory.
Sassacus, however, escaped to the Mohawks, by whom he was murdered the same month.
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.