According to Hubbard, Major Talcot overtook the Indians at Ausotunnoog River, and fought with them, killing and taking 45, of whom 25 were fighting-men, with the loss of only one, a Mohegan Indian. The Council of Connecticut, in a letter to Governor Andros, dated Aug. 19, says they slew 40 and took 15 captives. This engagement was on Tuesday morning, August 15, and is supposed to have taken place in or near the present township of Sheffield. Major Talcot was not stationed at Westfield, as intimated by Trumbull, but had recently come from the east. The foregoing fragmentary information, in regard to the flight of the Neutral Indians of Tantaskwee, has floated down to us thru the misty past, and will be taken as first hand and true.
Additional details are equally true, when brought to our knowledge by the grouping of facts.
From the place last mentioned, they went north-west and westward, through Brookfield to Northampton on the Connecticut River, the route being northerly of the Neutral Indians. The group is found in the report of Major Talcot, written at 10 o'clock, June 8th, at Northampton. The conclusion is clear that all those found at Chanagongum were killed or captured, except one who was wounded and made his escape, after being followed some distance by the trail of his blood. Group No. 3. Give us the privilege of imagining that the Mohegan, who was killed, got his death from the gun of a white man, accidently it may be, while saving the life of the honest Konkawasco, the last of the great chiefs of Tantaskwee, in Nipnet.