Ninigret

Ninigret in 1681, painting currently at the Rhode Island School of Design Museum

Ninigret (also known as Juanemo according to Roger Williams) was a seventeenth century sachem of the eastern Niantic Native American tribe in New England. Ninigret allied with the English settlers and Narragansetts against the Pequots. Ninigret did not participate in King Philip's War and was largely responsible for preventing the Niantics from joining the War.^[1]

Places named after Ninigret

• Fort Ninigret
• Ninigret Pond
• Ninigret Park
• Ninigret Beach

References

• Harold M. Chapin, Sachems of the Narragansett (Providence, 1931).
• Michael L. Oberg, Uncas, First of the Mohegans (New York, 2003). Glen LaFantasie, ed., The Correspondence of Roger Williams, 1629–1653, Vol. 1 (Providence, 1988).
• Massachusetts Historical Society, Collections, 2nd Ser. VIII (1826), 59.
• Lafarge, Oliver. (MCMLVI). A Pictorial History of the American Indian Crown Publishers Inc. Page 81.
• Yale University Brief Biography

1. ^ Frederic Denison, Westerly (Rhode Island) and Its Witnesses: For Two Hundred and Fifty Years, 1626-1876 : Including Charlestown, Hopkinton, and Richmond Until Their Separate Organization, with the Principal Points of Their Subsequent History, (J.A. & R.A. Reid, Providence: 1878), pg.22 [1] (accessed June 19, 2009)

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