be remembered, was a Pequot chief, and as such occupied a district of country between the Thames and the Connecticut, called Mohegoneak. 2

After an unsuccessful conflict with the which he belonged, he fled, with some fifty of his of New London, Groton and Stonington. Stockbridge, Past and Present.

tribe

to

The Pequot and Mohegan

country

and east of the NehanLyme), from Connecticut river

lay to the south ticks

(in to the eastern

boundary

line of the colony, and north-east or north of its northern

boundary

line.

This

tract

was

miles square, and included the counties of New London, Windham,

thirty

and the principal parts of the county of Tolland. The Pequot country proper was principally within three towns jthe

All the tract above this, as far north and been described, was the Mohegan country ; and most, if not all, the towns held their deeds from Uncas or his successors. Dr. Trumbull, in his History the expresses opinion, of Connecticut, that the Pequots and Mohegans were one " tribe and took their names from the Massachusetts place of their situation." east as has

Historical Society Collections, ix, 79.

THE INDUN TRIBES

followers,

to Hartford,

where he formed an

alliance with the

In the subsequent wars between the English

English in 1638.

and the Pequots, he remained faithful to the former, and, when the Pequots were blotted out as a nation, 1 received a portion of its survivors as his reward. He subsequently became one of the most powerful chiefs of the country, and the petted favorite