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

made just before his death.

chief, by r^uest of his father

At

Fort Pond, called by the Indians Konk-hong-anok, are the remains

Thompson ascribes the cause of this war to the refusal of the Montauk monarch to join in the plan for exterminating the Europeans. Roger Williams writes to the governor of Massachusetts in 1654 :

" The cause of the war is the

King Philip's war, (1675), and punished them severely. The engagement took place on Block Island, whither the Montauks went in their canoes, and upon landing, fell

into an

ambuscade.

He says

killed j a few were protected by the Eng

land sachem, and Ninigret, of the Narralish

gansetts. ish j the

The former is proud and fooland

latter

proud

Thompsons

Hist.

Long Island

Book of the

Indiana

fierce." '

Drake's

Lion Gardiner, in his Notes on East Hampton, relates, that the Block Island Indians, acting as the allies of the Narragansetts attacked

the

Montauks,

during

:

" The Montauk Indians were nearly all

pride of the barbarians, Ascassascotick, the Long Is-