Canonchet

Grants were awarded to install signs at a park in Westerly and along the Canonchet Nature Trail.

In April, 1676, Chief Canonchet, of the Narragansetts, was captured and shot, and the following month the Indians were decisively defeated near the falls of the Connecticut.

As a return favor, the Indians presented the head of Canonchet, or Nanuntenoo, to the English council at Hartford, Connecticut.

In the above fashion perished, without a plea, "in the prime of his manhood," Canonchet of the Big Heart, last Grand Sachem of the Narragansetts.

It was known that Queen Wetamoo was with Canonchet, but not certainly that King Philip had "kenneled" there.