Pequot War, 1636-37, image 1 of 13 Off Block Island, Block Island Sound “John Oldham had been in New England from the first settlement of Plymouth. After his ignominious expulsion from that colony, we hear of his apparent restoration to favor among that people; of his attempts to found colonies of his own in Maine [...]
Pequot War, 1636-36, image 2 of 13 Sight of the Great Pequot Fort, Near Stonington, Connecticut as viewed in the mid-1800´s “The murder of Captain Oldham by the Indians of Block Island aroused the most serious alarm throughout the feeble colonies of New England. It seemed to be, in the light of other acts of [...]
Pequot War, 1636-37, image 3 of 13 Block Island, Rhode Island “In August 1636, five small vessels, carrying about a hundred men, sailed from Boston to Block Island; for it was the Indians of that island who had murdered Oldham and taken his vessel. John Endicott of Salem was in command of the expedition, and [...]
Pequot War, 1636-37, image 4 of 13 Mouth of the Thames (Pequot) River, New London, Connecticut, as viewed in the mid-1800s “The Block Islanders were severely if not wisely punished for the murder of Oldham. The Pequots of the mainland were next to be dealt with for the earlier murder of Stone. A band of [...]
Pequot War, 1636-37, image 5 of 13 Captive Maidens, Wethersfield, Connecticut “Hartford and Windsor were in constant fear of attack. Cattle were killed or stolen; each settlement was a camp; to wander far from home was at the risk of immediate death, or captivity and death by torture; labor on week-days was, for the most [...]
Pequot War, 1636-37, image 6 of 13 Roger Williams on the Connecticut River, Connecticut “The very existence of the Colonies was, no doubt, seriously threatened. The different Indian tribes which surrounded them could, if they were to act in harmony, bring into the field many more warriors possible that they might, by a concerted movement, [...]
The Pequot War, 1636-37, image 7 of 13 Site of the Pequot Narragansett Fort at Fort Neck, Connecticut as viewed in the mid-1800s. “The General Court at Hartford had ordered Mason to land at the mouth of Pequot (the Thames) River, and invade the Pequot county at the nearest point from the sea. But Mason [...]
Pequot War, 1636-37, image 8 of 13 Porter’s Rocks, near Stonington, Connecticut “The next day the little army, followed by several hundred of the Indians, who still held back in fear and doubt, made a painful march through the woods, exhausted by fatigue and thirst and heat, – it was the 25th of May, – [...]
Pequot War, 1636-37, 9 of 13 John Mason’s Subsequent Map of the Attack on the Pequot Fort
Pequot War, 1636-37, 10 of 13 John Mason’s Attack on the Pequot Fort, Near Stonington and New London Connecticut, on the Mystic River “At break of day, when deep sleep had covered the Indian camp, Mason aroused his men. Guided by Uncas, the Mohegan cheif, and Wequash, a petty Pequot sachem who had deserted his [...]