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Peter Mehlman (born 1955 or 1956) [1] is an American television writer, comedian, and producer, best known for serving as a writer and producer on the TV series Seinfeld through nearly all of the show's nine-year run from 1989–98. He also created the 1999 series It's Like, You Know... and produced the 2004 animated series Father of the Pride ...
Thereafter, the Mohegan became a separate tribal nation under the leadership of Uncas. [1] [3] Uncas is a variant anglicized spelling of the Algonquian name Wonkus, which translates to "fox" in English. The word Mohegan (pronounced / ˈ m oʊ h iː ɡ æ n /) translates in their respective Algonquin dialects (Mohegan-Pequot language) as "People ...
Peter G. Morgan died in 1890 at Lawrenceville, Virginia, in the home of his daughter. She was the wife of the president of Saint Paul's College, affiliated with the Episcopal Church. [6] Morgan's descendants include civil rights leader, Ben Jealous, his great great great grandson.
Mahomet was the great-grandson of Uncas, an important sachem of the Mohegan tribe.In 1735, Captain John Mason, a descendant of the settler who had been asked by Uncas to act as guardians and trustees over the Mohegan land, engineered Mahomet's election to the position of Sachem in place of his great Uncle, Ben Uncas, who was more favoured by the Colony of Connecticut.
Peter Julian Robin Morgan CBE (born 10 April 1963) is a British screenwriter and playwright. He has written for theatre, films and television, often writing about historical events or figures such as Queen Elizabeth II , whom he has covered extensively in all major media.
On 2 September 1772 the Mohegan missionary Samson Occom (1723 – 1792) was asked to preach a sermon at the hanging of Moses Paul, a Native American who had been convicted of murder during a drunken rampage. Occom's sermon, later published as "A Sermon, Preached at the Execution of Moses Paul, an Indian; Who Was Executed at New Haven, on the ...
Colin Peter Morgan (7 July 1939 – 5 July 2010) [1] was a British poet, lyricist and television documentary author and presenter. [ 1 ] Born in Leigh , Lancashire , Morgan began his career as a poet in the mid-1950s when he was 16 and living alone in London.
In 1827, she formed a plan to benefit the Mohegan, who lived a few miles from Norwich.These Native Americans were the remnant of a once mighty tribe. From hut to hut, she visited them in the forest, started a Sunday school, of which she and another young woman, Sarah Breed, were the sole teachers, and provided books for those who could read.