The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1921-11-28
MEMnEn or ASSOCIATED PRESS
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1921.

accidents these days and of methods
OF restra ming and furnishing careless
and reckless drivers. What we don't
hear is that there aren't any more
auto accidents today in proportion to
the number Of cars in use and miles
travelled than there were horse and
carriage accidents twenty-five years
age. Tac rcal-hcS and the speed
maniac are generously damned and
folks sometimes forget that most mo-
tor car drivers on the road are de
cent, careful, courteous and ohliging
Another interesting Indian story
from Waiter II. crockett's recently
published history of Vermont is the
tale Of Gray Lock, the Indian from
whom the highest mountain IN the
state Of Massachusetts was named.
As tod N the history the connection
between Gray Lock, The Indian, and
Greylock. the mountain, is not given
but 1t may be that Gray Lock, the In
dian, was a frequenter Of the Grey
lock group of mountains familiar to
all Bennington people who travel oc-
casionally to pittsfeld. Gray Lock,
under another name, as his locks
we're not gray then, was chief Of
the Warranokes, small tribe Of In
dams living in what Is now the town
OF Westfeld, Mass. The name of the
| tribe is preserved in the name of the
Wcronoco paper mill near Westiield.
The Warfanokes, joined with the
Wampanoags, the Pocumtucks, Pen.
acceks. Peqnots, Squakeags and other
New England tribes in King Philips
! war against the whites in 1674-5-6.
| The Indians were finally defeated ane
King Philip slain IN 1916. The rem
Inants OF the Indian tribes Of southern
New England largely moved north or
west, joining with the lroquois of
New York or the Algonquin tribes Of
Canada. The young Warranoke
chief. who afterward became famous
as Gray Lock, lied the surviving mem.
hers Of his band. first to Join the
Skaticoots, dutch rendering Schagh
ticokes) in the vicinity Of present
Troy, Later they went north to Can
ada and finally back to Vermont
where thcy established village in
what IS now Swanton. near the mouth
Of the Missisquoi river With the
Warranokes were also Ahenaquis and
fragments Of other tribes, forming
branch Of what later came to be
known as the St. Francis Indians.
Gray Lock, in the day OF King Philip
could have been lit;le more than a
BOY for his chief fame as a warrior
was earned fifty years later when as
Gray Lock, in the day OF King Philip
1.-THE infant settlements Of Massachus-
etts He appeared first under the
name OF Gray Lock during Queen
Annes war 17o2.lTiS and his last APP
pearance recorded by the historian Of
those DAYS was in 1921 three years
after the settlement Of Vermont at
Fort Dummer IN the last 20 years
OF his life Gray Lock is credited with
more than 80 raids against the Eng
llish. He was we'll known to the
white settlements in the Connecticut
river valley, for, in the intervals of
peace, he frequently visited there, go
ing back as far as his hoyhood home
at Westfeld These visits In times
of peace made him the more dreaded
in days OF war because he was SO
familiar with the district. During
his cid age Gray Lock joined the mis-
sion OF a Freach priest who worked
among the Indians but this did not
cure the old savage Of his fayorte
pastlme Of killing and scalping white
settlers in the valley of the Connect.
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