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  • The former, in a note to page 424, volume 1, says, "Nine townships were voted, but only seven granted to the descendants of the Narraganset or Pequod vfSx soldiers, 1637, called Narraganset townships."

    Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society 1792

  • Weetamoo left her husband when he sided with the English, and then married the Narraganset Sachem, Quinapin.

    History of American Women Maggiemac 2008

  • While her husband was away in Boston trying to convince the Colony's leaders to provide military protection for the town, Mary Rowlandson's life was radically disrupted on February 10, 1676, when a contingent of Narraganset Indians attacked and burned Lancaster.

    History of American Women Maggiemac 2008

  • Read on in that Wikipedia article and it talks about how the Narraganset allies of the Massachusets Bay and Plymouth Rock colonists did abandon them after the leader of the colonial troops set an encampment alight, burning hundreds of men, women and children in one fell swoop.

    PrudeTube: Violence Up, Boobs Down 2007

  • But the original pronunciation was clearly three syllables; the first citation in the OED Roger Williams, 1676 calls them "Wampanoogs," and the ending must be the same as in the original Narraganset name for the Pequots, Pequttôog, and the word for Europeans, Wautaconâug 'coatmen,' which I presume are two spellings of the same vowel or diphthong.

    languagehat.com: WAMPANOAG. 2005

  • The next year, Canonicus, the Narraganset sachem, gave him land to found a settlement, which he gratefully named _Providence_.

    A Brief History of the United States

  • Soon after the French entered Narraganset Bay, Howe arrived off the harbor with the English fleet.

    A Brief History of the United States

  • Narraganset Bay, the ship appeared to sail so sluggishly and the voyage to be so tedious, that he would not have been surprised to hear some day from the captain that they would not reach their destination until somewhere about Christmas time!

    Fritz and Eric The Brother Crusoes

  • Ca-non'-i-cus, a Narraganset chief, once sent a bundle of arrows, wrapped in a rattlesnake skin, as a token of defiance.

    A Brief History of the United States

  • Though the Pequod messengers were present, he prevailed upon the old Narraganset chief to remain at home.

    A Brief History of the United States

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