Southern New England, 1638-45, image 5 of 19 John Davenport’s First Sunday at New Haven, Connecticut “Several of their number had held possession through the winter, but the first solemn and formal act of occupation was on the 18th of April, the Sunday after their arrival. Then this new band of Pilgrim Fathers assembled beneath [...]
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, 1636-37, 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 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, [...]
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 [...]