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The latest phase of Mohegan history is the formation of the 

 Mohegan Indian Association at Mohegan in 1920. The leading 

 members of the band founded this association to preserve the in- 

 tegrity of the tribe and to efl'ect certain aims along social and legal 

 lines. Forty-nine of the Mohegan are enrolled, the officers being 

 Lemuel M. Fielding, chief (pi. 22, &); Everett M. Fielding, assistant 

 chief; Albert E. Fielding, treasurer; Gladys Tantaquidgeon (pis. 23, 6; 

 24, a), secretary; Mrs. Edith Grey, Miss Mary V. Morgan, Mr. 

 Julian Harris, and Mrs. Hattie Morgan, councillors. 



ESTIMATES OF THE POPULATION OF THE PEQUOT 



PROPER 



About 3,000 before the Pequot war is the estimate given by early 

 writers. 



1637-38. Mter the destruction of the Pequot, "350 warriors, about 1,250 souls," 

 New Haven and Long Island (Mooney, article Pequot, Handbook 

 of American Indians) ; 200 warriors, portioned out among friendly 

 tribes, "about 700 in all" ("about 100 warriors to Mohegan; -80 to 

 Xarragansett, 20 to Niantic"). 

 1655. Survivors granted two reservations in Connecticut, Mushantuxet (Led- 



yard) and Groton. 

 1674. 1,.500 on both reservations (Mooney, op. cit.). 

 1731. 164 (De Forest, op. cit., p. 427). 

 1749. 38 Groton band (De Forest, op. cit., p. 432). 



1762. 176 (30 families) Groton band (De Forest, op. cit., p. 437); 140 Mush- 

 antuxet (Ledyard) (Mooney, op. cit.). 

 1774. 186 Groton band 

 1776. 151 Mushantuxet 

 1820. 50 Stonington (Groton) 

 1832. 40 Groton. 



fl5 persons, 3 families, Stonington 

 lis persons, Ledyard 

 1902. "Less than a score" (C. P. Thresher.-) 



1907. ".\bout 25" (near Ledyard) (Handbook of American Indians). 

 1910. 66 (49 in Connecticut, 17 in Massachusetts) (United States Indian Census, 

 p. 75). 



AFFINITIES OF MOHEGAN-PEQUOT WITH HUDSON RIVER 



MAHICAN 



Having now proceeded toward establishing the boundary lunits of 

 the dialects of the specific Pequot type, we may denote the area by 

 marking it in an inclosure on a chart of New England showing forth- 

 with its classification as a member of the Massachusetts-Narragansett 



' Bomes and Haunts of the Pequots. New England Magazine, 1902, p. 753. 



1848. 



(De Fore.st, op. cit., p. 432 et seq.). 



