Podunk

This writing witnesseth that Uncas, Sachem of Mohegan, in behalf of himself and people of Mohegan and Niantic, do hereby engage him and them to Arramamet, Seacutt, and Nesahegen
This writing made May 31, 1675 between Joshua, sachem of Niantic,[1] his mother[2] Arramamet’s widow, and her two daughters, of the one part, and Mr.
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Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Tunxis
Category
Geography, Land, & the Environment, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty
Summary
Transfer from one of the region's prominent families of four acres in Indian Neck at Tunxis to Farmington colonists for ten pounds.

Arramamet's wife

Arramamet's wife, whose name is not further identified in the documentary record.  She may be the mother of some or all of Arramamet's children, Chehegan (b. 1638), Joseph, Sowgonosk, and Autanyesh.  In 1675, she, her two daughters, and their husband, Joshua, sold a tract of land at Indian Neck, Farmington.
 
Additional sources for this biography come from the Related Digital Heritage Items listed below.

Autanyesh

Autanyesh was the youngest daughter of the Podunk leader, Arramamet, and the wife of the Mohegan Sachem, Attawanhood (Joshua).  In 1675, she, her mother, sister, and husband sold their property in Farmington's Indian Neck.
 
Additional sources for this biography come from the Related Digital Heritage Items listed below.

Sowgonosk

Sowgonosk (Soganasher) was the daughter of the Podunk leader, Arramamet.  Around the time of the treaty between Uncas and Arramamet and in recognition of it, the latter arranged for Sowganasher to marry Uncas' third son, Joshua (Attawanhood), the sachem of the Niantics.   On May 23, 1672, Arramamet gave the couple all the lands he owned at Podunk and at Tunxis Sepos. Three years later, in 1675, she, her mother, sister, and husband sold their property in Farmington's Indian Neck.
 
This writing witnesseth that Uncas, Sachem of Mohegan, in behalf of himself and people of Mohegan and Niantic do hereby engage him and them to Arramanet, Seacut, Nesahegen, gentlemen of Connecticut in behalf of the Indian people at Windsor, Podunk, Hartford, that they will carry it peaceably and neighborly towards them and the aforesaid Indians, and that they will not either secretly or publicly contrive or practice any evil or mischief against them.  And the a
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Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Tunxis
Category
Geography, Land, & the Environment, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty
Summary
Second copy of Treaty between the Mohegans and the Connecticut River Indian tribes that establish political relations and boundary lines (with minor variations from Copy 1)
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Native Northeast Research Collaborative
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Geography, Land, & the Environment, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty, Arts & Abstract Ideas