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Captives of the Pequot War

Pequot captives killed, given to colonists, shipped to the Caribbean or assigned to Mohegan and Narragansett, 1637 to 1638.

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1637–1638

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  1. 1637–1638 Captives of the Pequot War
  2. 1637 Massachusetts Bay Colony intervened in Captives of the Pequot War
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  1. 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
  2. Battle of Mistick Fort: Site Identification and Documentation Plan, Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center (American Battlefield Protection Program grant). Scholarship & press
    women and children were given to colonists as spoils of war, placed in captivity under other tribes who had pledged allegiance to the English, or transferred to Massachusetts Bay Colony, sold into slavery, and shipped to the Caribbean islands and British outposts.
  3. Pequot War timeline, Battlefields of the Pequot War, Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center. Scholarship & press
    It assigned Pequot captives to the Mohegan and Narragansett.
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