Putnam patriot., 1920-12-10

hidden that tEey c1ul1 not be seen Realizing that they were caught in 9 trap the English started to retreat Many of them sank SC deeply n the mud and mire that they could not get out without help. vhereupon the h. afans rushed forward to take their seaips. Just in time others of their band came to the rescue and drove the Indians back. Soon the fight be- came so fierce that the Fairfield Indi- ans begged for quarter.
 The white men replied that they would spare all who had never shed English blood
 Their sachem answered that ne anc his people were friends of the English and had never done them any harm They simply happened to be in the company of the Pequots but did not intend to aid them. They wished to withdraw and allow the Pe4uots to fight their own battles.
 This request was gladly granted.
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 With terrifying yeils they rushea upon the Hhi5e men. The siege wa tu.Hel iHto . hand to haad fsht When it Was over sixty Feqg 5ts haa escaped. twenty had been kiae1. an one hundred and eighty were prison CTS ia the hands of the English.
 What became of the prisoners?
 They were divided between Massa- chusetts and Connecticut. Some of those that fell to the share Of Massa- chusetts were sent to the West Indies and there spent the rest of their lives as slaves. Those that remained in the hands 9f the Connecticut settle fared better. but many Of these were forced e9 become servants of the white people as lonz as they were able to work.
 What became of Sassaeus, the pr9ua chief of the Pequots?
 For some reason he seems to have been separate from his little army a 5he lime Of rhe Great Swamp Fizl and did not take any part in the bal te. N hen h4 leaned that .his men had been defeated he eontinuel his Aizht to the Hudson River. There he placed himself under the protection of hiz o.d enemies. the Mol IWks. hoping that they would befriend him in hiz trouble Instead of doing this the cut of his head and sent his scalp as present to the white men in Connec- ticat. From here a lock of his long black hair was sent to Boston in or der that people of Massachusetts might also know that the dreaded Pc quot chieftan could never harm them again.
 What became of the rest of the Pc quots?
 About two months after the Great Swamp Fight the Pequots that still survived were brought to Hartford as prisoners. With them came Uncas, Chief of the Mohegans, and Mianto- homo, Chief of the Narragansetts, who wished to make treaty with the white men. The Mohegans and the Narragansetts promised that they would never again make war against the English. They furthermore prom ised that in case of any quarrel be- tween the two tribes they would sub- init their dispute to the English for ettlement-whereupo the English divided the Pequots among their h. dian friends and allies. To Uncas they gave one hundred, eighty to Mi antonomo, and twenty to Ninigret, a Mantle sachem, who had helped Cap tain Mason and his little army.
 Thus the Pequot nation disappear ed forever. Even the name of their river was changed from Pequot to Thames that no reminder of them should disturb the peace of the Eng fish.
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