[rustbucket]

Never knew there was a Podunk Indian tribe until I saw your map.

Some of the early New England English colonists were pure and virtuous but there were others who were rat bums.

Speaking of rat bums, the Captain John Underhill from Massachusetts Bay Colony who was one of the leaders of the Pequot village massacre (a bigger massacre than Wounded Knee) was also the person assigned to find Roger Williams and take him to the ship to be banished back to England for speaking his mind. Williams snuck away before Underhill got there and went on Rhode Island. Hats off to Williams.

[M. Espinola]

Underhill was underhanded and representing the worst aspects of new English arrivals to New England, as well as English Long Island.

Roger Williams was one of those virtuous Pilgrims who could read the Bible in Greek and Hebrew, did indeed outwit the bad guys. He wrote Key into the Language of America, 1643). He often used his good offices in maintaining peace with them until events overcome his goodwill resulted in The Pequot war.

Williams even challenged the legitimacy of the king's issuance of land grants to settlers, on the grounds that the king did not own the land he was granting. He felt the Indians properly owned the land, and that it was from them that the land should be gotten.

Note: The Mauquawogs or Mohowawogs [Mohawks] signifies 'Man Eaters' in their language:

Roger Williams depicted in the snowy woods.

'Many American places have been named after Indian words. In fact, about half of the states got their names from Indian words. The name of Kentucky comes from an Iroquoian word (Kentahten), which means "land of tomorrow." Connecticut's name comes from the Mohican word (Quinnehtukqut), which means "beside the long tidal river." And the word "Podunk," meant to describe a insignificant town out in the middle of nowhere, comes from a Natick Indian word meaning "swampy place." American Indian Place Names