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Canonchet

American  
[kuh-non-chet, -chit] / kəˈnɒn tʃɛt, -tʃɪt /

noun

  1. Nanuntenoo, died 1676, Narragansett leader: executed by colonists.


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Canonchet was not that kind of a man.

From Boys' Book of Indian Warriors and Heroic Indian Women by Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand) Sabin

From this moment the fortunes of Canonchet were identified with Philip's, and he is supposed to have commanded in many of the attacks upon the frontier towns.

From Reminiscences of Sixty Years in Public Affairs, Vol. 1 by George S. Boutwell

Chief Canonchet, great leader of the Narragansetts, was captured and executed.

From Boys' Book of Indian Warriors and Heroic Indian Women by Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand) Sabin

Plymouth had heard that the haughty young sachem Canonchet was on his way to Plymouth, at the van of three hundred warriors.

From Boys' Book of Indian Warriors and Heroic Indian Women by Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand) Sabin

In fact, running hard around the hill, Canonchet wellnigh ran into the Niantics of Chief Catapazet, who were coming down right over the hill.

From Boys' Book of Indian Warriors and Heroic Indian Women by Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand) Sabin

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