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Mar 10, 2010 · In 1636, the tribe’s chiefs granted Roger Williams land-use rights to establish Providence; a year later, the Narragansett joined with the Puritans of Massachusetts Bay Colony and Connecticut in...
- Missy Sullivan
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The first documented contact with the Indians of Rhode Island took place in 1524 when Giovanni de Verrazano visited Narragansett Bay and described a large Indian population, living by agriculture and hunting, and organized under powerful “kings.”
Early History of Narragansett. When Roger Williams fled from the Massachusetts Bay Colony in l636 to found a settlement he named Providence in a region that became Rhode Island, he was befriended there by the dominant Narragansett Native American tribe and their great sachem Canonicus.
In 1636, the Narragansett were able to defeat the Pequot with the help of the English. The Mohegans, who were a branch of the Pequot, later captured the chief sachem of the Narragansetts,...
The sachems of the Narragansett tribe defined their relationship with the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the Act of Submission of 1644, which took the form of a letter to King Charles I of England.
The Great Swamp Massacre or the Great Swamp Fight was a crucial battle fought during King Philip's War between the colonial militia of New England and the Narragansett people in December 1675. It was fought near the villages of Kingston and West Kingston in the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.
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