Arramamet
Arramamat was the sachem of the Podunk, whose chief village was at East Hartford, although he had jurisdiction over land elsewhere. In 1636 he is described as the sachem of Matianock, near the mouth of the Farmington River in Windsor. Aramamat had at least two children, a son Chehegan and at least two daughters, the eldest, Sowgonosk, and youngest, Autanyesh, both of whom married Attawanhood or Joshua, the third son of Uncas.
1637, Arramamat was among those who notified the Connecticut General Assembly that Lieutenant Holmes had denied the Indians of their old ground around Windsor's Plymouth House. After a plague ravaged the Podunk and caused them to remove from their village there in 1634, Arramamet became the immediate successor of Natawannute and with Waginacut, led the Podunk people when they returned to their homelands five years later.
Around 1654, Arramamet and Uncas had a disagreement, whereupon Uncas ordered his men to burn one of Arramamet's wigwams during the night and make it look like the Mohawks had done it. Upon discovery of the burned frame, Arramamet fled to Mohawk Country. He was a signer of the deed selling the land between the Scantic and Podunk Rivers and sold land at Podunk to Thomas Burnham in 1661. In August 1666, Aramamat signed an agreement to act peaceably with the Mohegan and to observe a boundary line at the edge of their mutual territories.
He witnessed a confirmatory deed to Hartford in 1670 and transferred more land at Podunk to his daughter Sowgonosk and son-in-law Attawanhood by his will in 1672. Five years later, the Connecticut General Court appointed John Allyn and Thomas Bull as a committee to decide and set out Arramamet's planting lands at Podunk to his heirs and to other Indians.
Stiles, History and Genealogies of Ancient Windsor, 107. Trumbull, Memorial History of Hartford County, 14. Joseph Goodwin, East Hartford: Its History and Traditions, 17, 28, 30, 40. 2 PRCC 306. Dexter, Extracts from the Itineraries, 158. Additional sources for this biography come from the Related Digital Heritage Items listed below.
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Mesequas
Died:
c. 1762