The tribe no longer exists, but some descendants are still among the residents of New England today. Places named after Ninigret Ninigret National Wildlife Refuge Fort Ninigret Ninigret Pond Ninigret Park Ninigret Beach Ninigret Cove (in Quonochontaug Pond, at the Charlestown/Westerly border) Legacy The local oysters are referred to as Ninigret Nectars. They are smaller than most other oysters from New England. Footnotes Further reading Harold M. Chapin, Sachems of the Narragansett. Providence, 1931. Julie A. Fisher and David J. Silverman, Ninigret, Sachem of the Niantics and Narragansetts: Diplomacy, War, and the Balance of Power in Seventeenth-Century New England and Indian Country. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2014. Michael L. Oberg, Uncas, First of the Mohegans. (New York, 2003). Glen LaFantasie, ed., The Correspondence of Roger Williams, 1629–1653, Vol. 1 (Providence, 1988). Massachusetts Historical Society, Collections, 2nd Ser. VIII (1826), 59. Lafarge, Oliver. (MCMLVI). A Pictorial History of the American Indian Crown Publishers Inc. Page 81. Yale University Brief Biography People of colonial Rhode Island Native American leaders Niantic people 1610 births 1677 deaths 17th-century Native Americans Burials in Rhode Island