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The charges allude to the history of the geographical area to which the organization was allotted originally. The use of the warrior's head and the rattlesnakes was suggested by Orcutt's History, published under the auspices of the Fairfield County (Connecticut) Historical Society. "The first of the Indian Wars in Connecticut was the Pequot War which began in May 1639, in a swamp flat which is now in the village of Southport in the Town of Fairfield. There were at the time in the Housatonic River Valley from Long Island Sound Northward, between two and three thousand Indians.