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Sassacus, the Glossary

Sassacus (Massachusett: Sassakusu, "fierce") (– June 1637) was a Pequot sachem who was born near present-day Groton, Connecticut.^[1]

Connecticut Colony

The Connecticut Colony or Colony of Connecticut, originally known as the Connecticut River Colony or simply the River Colony, was an English colony in New England which later became the state of Connecticut.

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Fairfield Swamp Fight

The Fairfield Swamp Fight (also known as the Great Swamp Fight) was the last engagement of the Pequot War and marked defeat of the Pequot tribe in the war and the loss of their recognition as a political entity in the 17th century.

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Groton, Connecticut

Groton is a town in New London County, Connecticut located on the Thames River.

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Harman Garrett

Harman Garrett (c. 1610 – c. 1678) (also known as Cashawashett or Wequashcook II or Herman Garrett or Harmon Garrett) was a Niantic sachem and then governor of the Eastern Pequots slightly east of the Pawcatuck River in what is now Westerly, Rhode Island. Sassacus and Harman Garrett are 17th-century Native American leaders.

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Iroquois

The Iroquois, also known as the Five Nations, and later as the Six Nations from 1722 onwards; alternatively referred to by the endonym Haudenosaunee are an Iroquoian-speaking confederacy of Native Americans and First Nations peoples in northeast North America.

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Jumping spider

Jumping spiders are a group of spiders that constitute the family Salticidae.

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Massachusett language

The Massachusett language is an Algonquian language of the Algic language family that was formerly spoken by several peoples of eastern coastal and southeastern Massachusetts.

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Mohawk people

The Kanien'kehá:ka ("People of the flint"; commonly known in English as Mohawk people) are in the easternmost section of the Haudenosaunee, or Iroquois Confederacy.

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Mohegan

The Mohegan are an Algonquian Native American tribe historically based in present-day Connecticut.

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Murder

Murder is the unlawful killing of another human without justification or valid excuse committed with the necessary intention as defined by the law in a specific jurisdiction.

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Narragansett people

The Narragansett people are an Algonquian American Indian tribe from Rhode Island.

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New England Colonies

The New England Colonies of British America included Connecticut Colony, the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Massachusetts Bay Colony, Plymouth Colony, and the Province of New Hampshire, as well as a few smaller short-lived colonies.

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New York (state)

New York, also called New York State, is a state in the Northeastern United States.

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Ninigret

Ninigret (also known as Juanemo according to Roger Williams) (c. 1610 This source confirms 1662 as the date of his land sales.-1677 This source suggests a date of 1667 for his land sales and a 1647 war against the Mohegans.) was a sachem of the eastern Niantic Indian tribe in New England at the time of colonization, based in Rhode Island. Sassacus and Ninigret are 17th-century Native American leaders.

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Pequot War

The Pequot War was an armed conflict that took place in 1636 and ended in 1638 in New England, between the Pequot tribe and an alliance of the colonists from the Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, and Saybrook colonies and their allies from the Narragansett and Mohegan tribes.

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Pequots

The Pequot are a Native American people of Connecticut.

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Sachem

Sachems and sagamores are paramount chiefs among the Algonquians or other Native American tribes of northeastern North America, including the Iroquois.

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Sassacus (spider)

Sassacus is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by George and Elizabeth Peckham in 1895.

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Uncas

Uncas was a sachem of the Mohegans who made the Mohegans the leading regional Indian tribe in lower Connecticut, through his alliance with the New England colonists against other Indian tribes. Sassacus and Uncas are 17th-century Native American leaders, Native American leaders and Native American people from Connecticut.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sassacus