Note 647 — Chapter IX · (continued 2)

J. Hammond Trumbull, in Conn. Hist. Soc. Coll., ii. 8. [Dr. Trumbull has compassed a large part of the field of the Indian nomenclature of Connecticut in his Indian Names of Places: ... in Connecticut, etc., Hartford, 1881. The fortunes of the natives of this colony have been traced in J. W. De Forest’s History of the Indians of Connecticut (with a map of 1630), of which there have been successive editions in 1850, 1853, and 1871. Of Uncas, the most famous of the Mohegan chiefs, there is a pedigree, as made out in 1679, recorded in the Colony Records, Deeds, iii. 312, and printed in N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., 1856, p. 227. The will of his son Joshua is in Ibid., 1859, p. 235. An agreement which Uncas made in 1681 with the whites is in the Public Records, i. 309, and in Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., x. 16. The warfare in 1642 between Uncas and Miantonomo, the chief of the Narragansetts, and which ended with the latter’s death in captivity, the English approving, is described by Winthrop and Hubbard; also in Trumbull’s Connecticut, chap. 7; Arnold’s Rhode Island, chap. 4; Palfrey’s New England, vol. ii. chap. 3; and it was the subject of an historical address in 1842 by William L. Stone, called Uncas and Miantonomo.—Ed.]