Southern New England, 1638-45, image 9 of 19 Mouth of the Connecticut River “Nor could the claim of the Dutch West India Company to the Fresh River – the Connecticut – by right of prior discovery and occupation, through so pertinaciously urged, seriously hinder the steady progress of the English along the shores of the [...]
Southern New England, 1638-45, image 10 of 19 Gardiner’s Island, Long Island, New York “Not only was the “crowding” pushed along the shores of the mainland, but it crossed the Sound. In 1639, Lion Gardiner purchased of the Indians the island Manchonack – since know as Gardiner’s Island – near Montauk Point. Shelter Island, still [...]
Southern New England, 1638-45, image 11 of 19 Montauk Point, Long Island, New York “The same year some New Haven people took possession at Southold on the Sound. The young colonies had not long to wait, when once a firm foothold was gained, for accessions both from Old and New England. Nor were the Dutch [...]
Southern New England, 1638-45, image 13 of 19 Coast of Massachusetts – Nantasket Beach “So Davenport and his company sailed out of Boston harbor in the bright days of April, – sailed on even keel and with gentle breezes past the long beaches of the Bay; past the white strands and sandhills of Cape Cod; [...]
Southern New England, 1638-45, image 15 of 19 The Cove, Portsmouth, Rhode Island “Many of these were driven by such persecutions to seek for a new home outside the jurisdiction of Massachusetts. Nearly all of them were of that number who were compelled to give up their arms. ‘I thought it not strange,’ wrote one [...]
Southern New England, 1638-45, image 17 of 19 Entrance to Newport Harbor, Newport, Rhode Island “It is easy to imagine the progress of events. The class to which, under the category of ‘Persons distressed in conscience,’ Roger William suggested that a shelter might be found about Narragansett Bay, is always sure to include some very [...]
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 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 [...]
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, – [...]