Metowacks, Brodhead ; Matuwacks, fates & M.oulton ; Montauks, Thompson.

THE INDIAN TRIBES

Dur the body of his followers lay in the immediate vicinity. the the Montauks were the of wars Mahicans, subjugated by ing or compelled to pay tribute to the Pequots.

After the destruc

tion of the latter nation in 1637, the Mahicans again asserted their authority, but about that time the Montauks accepted the pro

tection of the English and paid tribute to the governor of

New

In 1653, they were engaged in war with the Narra-

Haven.

gansetts, or rather the latter attacked them

"as the friends and

A considerable number of the

of the English." 1 Montauks perished in this wlr.

tributaries

On the division of the island in 1650, between the English and the Dutch, the English taking the eastern, and the Dutch the western part, the jurisdiction of Wyandance was nominally divided, Tackapousha being elected sachem of the chieftaincies

of the

in possession

Dutch, viz

:

Marsapequas, Merikokes,

In Carnarsees, Secatogues, Rockaways, and Matinecocks. the the winter of 1658, the small pox destroyed more than half clan, while

Wyandance lost his life by poison secretly adminis

tered.

The

them

for a

remainder, both to escape the fatal malady, and the danger of invasion in their weakened state, fled in a body to their white neighbors, who received and entertained considerable period.

Wycombone succeeded his

father, Wyandance, and being a minor, divided the government

with his mother, who was styled the Squa-sachem. Lion Gardiner and his son David acted as guardians to the young