The Pequot War In Early American History

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The Pequot war began during the mid-1630’s. The war began with the English religious radicals or better known as the ‘Puritans.’ The Puritans took over the Indian land as a “waste ground.” Alfred A. Cave states that it is a matter of record that the English assaulted the Pequot’s after the failure of efforts to persuade them to apprehend and surrender to Puritan justice. The Pequot War is one of the most important events in early American history, being the matter of records that the English assaulted the Pequot’s during 1636-37. In the 1630’s the English Puritan settlements at Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay Colonies had begun expanding into the rich Connecticut River Valley to accommodate the steady stream of new emigrants from England (The Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Connecticut). During the time that the Puritans of Massachusetts Bay moved towards Connecticut, the Puritans came into great conflict with the Pequot Indians (Pequot Massacres Begin). Arising a war like tribe in southeastern Connecticut, near the center of the, now considered, Thames River. By the spring of 1637, the Pequot’s, causing the Massachusetts governor, John Endecott to organize a large military force to punish the Indians, killed English traders and colonists. Prior to the Pequot War, the Pequot territory was approximately two hundred …show more content…

The Pequot’s were also called to an account about the murder of Captain Stone, who arrived to have some conferences with them (Mason 9). The Pequot were most likely not the killers of John Oldham, but the Block Island Narragansets (The Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Connecticut). John Oldham, was also one of the founders of Wethersfield and there is no evidence that he was a “dishonest trader” (The Society of Colonial Wars in the State of

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