Isaiah Uncas (abt. 1750 - 1770)

Born about 1750 in Mohegan, Montville, New London, Connecticut Colony

Ancestors

Died 20 Apr 1770 at about age 20 in Mohegan, Montville, New London, Connecticut Colony

Biography

Baptized in 1750 He was a pupil in Dr. Wheelock's Indian Charity School, at Lebanon from 1760 to around 1767, where he performed mediocrely as a student and was reassigned to working on the school's farm.

Isaiah married Mary Sowas, the granddaughter of the Eastern Pequot leader, Mary Momaho Sowas in North Stonington on November 30, 1769.

The Mohegans at Ben's Town chose him as the successor to his father, Ben Uncas III, a decision that was supported by Connecticut authorities.

I He died at Mohegan of consumption on Friday, April 6, 1770, and was buried with his father at the Little Plains burial ground in Norwich.

Isaiah Uncas, Occom Circle. Early Connecticut Marriages, Ancestry. DeForest, History of the Indians of Connecticut, 456, 459. PRCC, Vol. 13, 188. Connecticut Journal, April 20, 1770.

This information was obtained at Mohegan, in 1834, of Lydia Fowler, an Indian woman, 79 years of age, the oldest person belonging to the tribe.

At his death, "the body of king Ben was dug up, and was carried with that of his son, and buried at Norwich".

Burial

Royal Mohegan Burial Ground, Norwich, New London, Connecticut

Sources

https://nativenortheastportal.com/bio/bibliography/uncas-isaiah

• Barber, John Warner. Connecticut Historical Collections (Durrie & Peck and J.W. Barber, 1849) Page 337.
• Find A Grave: Memorial #34622537
• Connecticut Journal (New Haven, CT, Tuesday, Apr 20, 1770) Page: 3.

• " New-Haven, April 20, on Friday the sixth instant died of Consumption, at Mohegan, Isaiah Uncas, Sachem of a tribe of Indians in the North part of new-London, and on Tuesday the Indians of said Tribe dug up the Body of his Father Benjamin Uncas, (their late Sachem) who was buried at Mohegan the last Year, and carried both Corpses and interred them in their old Burying-Ground at the Little-Plains in Norwich. The Indians behaved with great Decency, and seemed pleas'd at the Respect shewed to their Sovereign by a numerous Concourse of White People who attended the Funeral."