Hartford in the olden time Author:Isaac William Stuart Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: and ally, a neighboring sagamore, was slain, he thundered his claim for the " meane" murderer at the fort of the Podunks, allied Uncas actively with his purpose ... more »of revenge, and was with difficulty appeased, if at all so, by the intervention of the General Court. He had occasional differences with the whites. He burned Mr. Andrew Warner's hedge, and paid damages only after he had been brought before Governor Haynes and threatened with an attachment. Once he was strongly suspected of conspiring with Miantinomo "to draw the Indians into a confederation" against the English, but without, it seems, just foundation. Once he was charged with conspiring the death of certain magistrates among the English—was arrested, imprisoned, tried before the Commissioners of the United Colonies, and, for want of proof, was acquitted. He was a landholder of some consequence. Besides Hartford he had land east " beyond the river." He was rather extensively connected both by blood and treaty with surrounding Sachems. He was upon the whole friendly to the English, and once testified strongly in their favor, in open Court, against the Dutch. Though vindictive and wary, he seems to have loved his friends, and adhered to his promises. He was quite fair for an Indian. Such was the chief with whom Mr. Stone and Mr. Goodwin had to negotiate. They were successful, and so far as appears without trouble. With Sequas- sen's consent, and that of " those of his tribe also who were of age" to declare it, and " with the consent of the rest of the inhabitants of the place," they soon purchased an area about the same as our presenttownship. . It was to extend from a tree marked N. F., which was " the divident between Hartford and Wethersfield" on the south, to Windsor bounds on the north, and from the Great River on th...« less