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Pequot War1636-1637
1616-1617 Mass Epidemic
• Small Pox Epidemic wipes out 75-95% of Natives in the Americas. (Guns, Germs, Steel)
• Left Native society shattered and in chaos
• Estimated 15,000-18000 natives living in all of New England (Vaughn, Alden)
Algonquin Tribes
Great Puritan Migratio
n21,000 Puritans migrate to New
England in Family units
Distrusted unmarried adults
Splinter Colonies form in Rhode Island
and Connecticut
New England Engages in Lucrative Fur Trade
Small Pox Epidemic Left A Massive Power Vacuum in New England.
Mohegan ally with the English and the Pequot ally with the Dutch.
Mass Bay Colony starts creating wampum and
significantly lessens the power of the Narragansett
and the Pequot
Privateer John Stone and Crew Killed by the
Pequot1634
John Oldham“Mad Jack” Honest trader killed at block island 1636
English and Allies Take on the
Pequot
Mass Bay Sends Endicott to Block Island
Connecticut Calls the Militia Out under John
Mason and John Underhill
Mystic Massacre
King Phillip’s War1675-1678
Changed English/Native
Relations
Beaver Nearly Extinct in New EnglandWampum Devalued
Clash of Land and Agricultural PracticesMetacomet starts selling land and purchasing
guns
Massasoit Allied with the Pilgrims
John Eliot Translate the bible into Native
language
King Phillip’s brother dies of illness while in Plymouth Colony
Settlers warned by John Sassamon
His body was found under ice in Assawompset Pond in
Lakeville MA
3 of Phillip’s men were put on trial and executed“Partially Native Jury”
Phillip Raids Swansea
Battle of Bloody Brook
Nine Men’s Misery
New England Confederation
Great swamp fight 1675
King Phillip’s Head put on a spike in Plymouth in 1676