One of the big questions that no one has tried answering is why and how did John and Florence Carman and their children get to Long Island?  We have scattered records of him being in Weatherford in what will become Connecticut prior to his surveying of property on Long Island for that colony, if we are to believe the Denton Genealogy.

The Pequot War was the English versus the Indigenous American Indians, in particular the "Pequot" tribe which had separated their identity from their Mohegan roots, both being part of the larger Algonquin Nation. On Long Island the primary tribe was the Montauks.  In particular though it was the Pequot tribe which bore the brunt and extermination, thus receiving the name.  But first let me digress a bit to the lay out of early "New England" colonies of the early 1600's (in very general terms)

The Pilgrims were the first to land in what we call New England. Their establishment was known as the "Plymouth Colony" (basically Cape Cod).  It was not until later that the Puritans arrived in the area north of the Plymouth Colony at around the area of current day Boston.

09/04/2006