Miantonomo

Abstract This chapter describes the fallout from the Pequot War and the growing alienation between the Narragansetts and the English. The war exacerbated the emerging rivalry between the Narragansetts and Mohegans, both of whom were just as eager as Massachusetts and Connecticut to reap land and captives as the spoils of war. Connecticut pressured Miantonomo and Uncas into signing the Treaty of Hartford, which banned the Pequots as a people and apportioned them to other Algonquian communities as captives. Massachusetts grappled with allegations that Miantonomo was attempting to lead an Algonquian uprising against the English. Such concerns led the Puritan colonies to form the United Colonies confederation. The United Colonies ultimately allowed Uncas and the Mohegans to kill