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The Pequot War was an armed conflict that took place in 1636 and ended in 1638 in New England, ... John Stone and seven of his crew were murdered in 1634 by the ...
Engraving depicting the attack on the Pequot Fort, published in 1638 (Photo Facsimile made in circa 1870) The Mystic massacre – also known as the Pequot massacre and the Battle of Mystic Fort – took place on May 26, 1637 during the Pequot War, when a force from the Connecticut Colony under Captain John Mason and their Narragansett and Mohegan allies set fire to the Pequot Fort near the ...
Mason, John.(1736) "A Brief History of the Pequot War." ed. Paul Royster, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Digital Commons, 2007. Note: "John Mason (c.1600–1672) commanded the Connecticut forces in the expedition that wiped out the Pequot fort and village at Mystic and in two subsequent operations that effectively eliminated the Pequots as a ...
Alfred A. Cave (February 8, 1935 – September 8, 2019) was an American professor, historian, and author. He is a Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Toledo, specializing in the ethnohistory of Colonial America, Native Americans, and the Jacksonian era. His writing primarily focuses on ethnic conflict and accommodation in ...
In 1632, indigenous people (likely Western Niantics associated with the Pequots) [12] killed colonial traders John Stone and Walter Norton, and the Pequots of eastern Connecticut were blamed. A Pequot delegation presented magistrates in Boston with two bushels of wampum and a bundle of sticks representing the number of beavers and otters with ...
John Underhill has been the subject of a recent trend toward historically revised accounts of the Pequot War. (See: Pequot War#Historical accounts and controversies). He has been described as a mercenary in service to the English and the Dutch. He was a professional soldier who was paid for his service.
Fairfield Swamp Fight. / 41.13833; -73.29028. The Fairfield Swamp Fight (also known as the Great Swamp Fight) was the last engagement of the Pequot War and marked defeat of the Pequot tribe in the war and the loss of their recognition as a political entity in the 17th century. The participants in the conflict were the Pequot and the English ...
Some Indians captured in the Pequot War were enslaved, with those posing the greatest threat being transported to the West Indies and exchanged for goods and slaves. [106] Governor John Winthrop owned a few Indian slaves, [107] and Governor Simon Bradstreet owned two black slaves. [108]