Organization

Massachusetts Bay Colony

English colony around Boston; its forces attacked a Pequot village in 1636.

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Pequot War 1636 attacked and burned a Pequot village in 1636 Scholarship & press 1
Captives of the Pequot War 1637 its governor’s journal records boys and women sent to Bermuda Primary record 2
Day of thanksgiving in Massachusetts churches, 1637 15 Jun 1637 Primary record 2

Timeline 3 dates

Proof 2 sources

Battle of Mistick Fort: Site Identification and Documentation Plan, Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center (American Battlefield Protection Program grant). Scholarship & press
Massachusetts Bay forces disembarked on the east side of Thames River, and after several hours of unsuccessful negotiations with an aged Pequot ambassador, attacked and burned a village.
and thus began the war between the Indians and us (English) in these parts.
Winthrop’s Journal, “History of New England,” 1630-1649, ed. James Kendall Hosmer, Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1908 (scan at the Internet Archive), 1908. Primary record
We had now slain and taken, in all, about seven hundred.
We sent fifteen of the boys and
two women to Bermuda, by Mr. Peirce; but he, missing it, carried them to Providence Isle
15.] There was a day of thanksgiving kept in all the churches for the victory obtained against the Pequods, and for other mercies.

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