Pequot War

The Pequot War was an armed conflict between 1634–1638 between the Pequot tribe against an alliance of the Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, and Saybrook colonies who were aided by their Native American allies (the Narragansett and Mohegan tribes). Hundreds were killed; hundreds more were captured and sold into slavery to the West Indies. Other survivors were dispersed. At the end of the war, about seven hundred Pequots had been killed or taken into captivity. The result was the elimination of the Pequot as a viable polity in what is present-day Southern New England. See also the Native American Diaspora project.

Participants:

1. Pequot: Sachem Sassacus
2. Eastern Niantic
3. Western Niantic: Sachem Sassious
4. Mohigg: Sachem Uncas
5. Niantic Sagamore Wequash
6. Narragansett: Sachem Miantonomo
7. Montauk or Montaukett
8. Massachusetts Bay Colony: Governors Henry Vane and John Winthrop, Captains John Underhill and John Endecott
9. Plymouth Colony: Governors Edward Winslow and William Bradford, and Captain Myles Standish
10. Connecticut Colony: Thomas Hooker, Captain John Mason, Robert Seeley
11. Saybrook Colony: Lion Gardiner

Links

• http://www.dowdgen.com/dowd/document/pequots.html
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pequot_War
• Connecticut Soldiers in the Pequot War of 1637 by James Shepard
• Mashantucket Pequot Tribe