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See also:MIANTONOMO ( ? -1643) , See also:chief of the Narraganset tribe of See also:North See also:American See also:Indians, See also:nephew of their See also:grand sachem, Canonicus (d. 1647). He seems to have been friendly to the See also:English colonists of See also:Massachusetts and See also:Connecticut, though he was accused of being treacherous. In 1636, when under suspicion, he went to See also:Boston to prove his See also:loyalty to the colonists. In the following See also:year he permitted See also:John See also:- MASON, FRANCIS (1799—1874)
- MASON, GEORGE (1725—1792)
- MASON, GEORGE HEMMING (1818–1872)
- MASON, JAMES MURRAY (1798-1871)
- MASON, JOHN (1586-1635)
- MASON, JOHN YOUNG (1799-1859)
- MASON, LOWELL (1792—1872)
- MASON, SIR JOHN (1503–1566)
- MASON, SIR JOSIAH (1795-1881)
- MASON, WILLIAM (1725—1797)
Mason to See also:lead his Connecticut expedition against the Pequot Indians through the Narraganset See also:country, and in 1638 he signed for the Narraganset the tripartite treaty between that tribe, the Connecticut colonists and the Mohegan Indians, which provided for a perpetual See also:peace between the parties, and he agreed to take under his See also:jurisdiction eighty of the two See also:hundred troublesome Pequot. In 1643 a See also:quarrel See also:broke out between the Mohegan and the Narraganset, and Miantonomo led his warriors against those of Uncas, the Mohegan sachem. He was defeated and captured at what is now See also:Norwich, See also:Conn., was turned over to the Connecticut authorities, and was later tried at Boston by the commissioners of the See also:United Colonies of New See also:England. A See also:committee of five clergymen, to whom his See also:case was referred, recommended that he be executed, and the commissioners accordingly sentenced him to See also:death and See also:chose Uncas as his executioner. Miantonomo, who was kept in See also:ignorance of this See also:sentence, was taken to the See also:scene of his defeat and was there tomahawked in See also:cold See also:blood by Wawequa, the See also:brother of Uncas. There is a See also:monument to Miantonomo in Sachem's See also:Park, Norwich, Conn.
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