The story of Massachusetts Bay Colony

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

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

1636

Massachusetts Bay Colony intervened in Pequot War. Attacked and burned a Pequot village in 1636.

1637

Massachusetts Bay Colony intervened in Captives of the Pequot War. Its governor’s journal records boys and women sent to Bermuda.

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