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Connecticut Water Trails Program
History Of Connecticut's Water Trails
Native Americans
The Brotherton
The name of two distinct bands, each formed of remnants of various Algonquian tribes. The best-known band was composed of individuals of the Mahican, Wappinger, Mohegan, Pequot, Narraganset, etc., of Connecticut and Rhode Island, and of the Montauk and others from Long Island
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They numbered 250 in 1791
The Brothertown (Brotherton) are descendants of the
Pequot and
Mohegan (Algonquin-speaking) tribes in southern New England.
They became a tribe in 1769 when seven Christian and
English-speaking communities organized and moved to land in upstate New
York. They cleared the land,
planted fields and built houses while under intense pressure to again
move west. The Brothertown
joined their neighbors, the Oneida and the Stockbridge, and planned a
move to Wisconsin. The
Brothertown purchased land near Kaukauna which the United States
government exchanged for the land called Brothertown Township in Calumet
County. Five groups of
Brothertown arrived in Wisconsin on ships at the port of Green Bay
between 1831 and 1836. Upon
arrival, the Brothertown cleared land and began farming after building a
church near Jericho. Today,
the Brothertown remain a culturally distinct Indian community with the
largest concentration residing in the Fond du Lac area.
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