[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] In the winter of 1658, the small pox destroyed more than half the clan, while Wyandance lost his life by poison secretly adminis tered. The remainder, both to escape the fatal malady, and the danger of invasion in their weakened state, fled in a body to their white neighbors, who received and entertained them for a considerable period. Wycombone succeeded his father, Wyandance, and being a minor, divided the government with his mother, who was styled the Squa-sachem. Lion Gardiner and his son David acted as guardians to the young chief, by r^uest of his father made just before his death. At Fort Pond, called by the Indians Konk-hong-anok, are the remains Thompson ascribes the cause of this King Philip's war, (1675), and punished war to the refusal of the Montauk mon-them severely. The engagement took arch to join in the plan for exterminating place on Block Island, whither the Mon-the Europeans. Roger Williams writes tauks went in their canoes, and upon land-to the governor of Massachusetts in 1654 : ing, fell into an ambuscade. He says : " The cause of the war is the pride of the " The Montauk Indians were nearly all barbarians, Ascassascotick, the Long Is-killed j a few were protected by the Eng land sachem, and Ninigret, of the Narra-lish and brought away. The sachem gansetts. The former is proud and fool-was taken and carried to Narragansett, ish j the latter proud and fierce." — he was made to walk on a large flat rock Thompsons Hist.