Pequot War - wikipedia Pequot War Pequot War Part of the American Indian Wars A 19th - century engraving depicting an incident in the Pequot War Date July 1636 -- September 1638 Location New England Result Pequot defeat Treaty of Hartford ( 1638 ) Belligerents Pequot tribe English Colonists Massachusetts Bay Colony Plymouth Colony Saybrook Colony Connecticut Colony Indian Allies Narragansett tribe Mohegan tribe Commanders and leaders Sachem Sassacus Captain John Underhill John Mason Sachem Uncas Sagamore Wequash Cooke Sachem Miantonomoh The Pequot War was an armed conflict that took place between 1636 and 1638 in New England between the Pequot tribe and an alliance of the colonists of the Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, and Saybrook colonies and their allies from the Narragansett and Mohegan tribes. The war concluded with the decisive defeat of the Pequots. At the end, about 700 Pequots had been killed or taken into captivity. Hundreds of prisoners were sold into slavery to the West Indies ; other survivors were dispersed as captives to the victorious tribes. The result was the elimination of the Pequot tribe as a viable polity in Southern New England, and the colonial authorities classified them as extinct. Survivors remained in the area but were absorbed into other local tribes. In the late 20th century, people claiming to be descended from the Pequot tribe gained federal recognition as a modern - day tribe and were given reserves of land along the Thames and Mystic rivers in southeastern Connecticut. Contents 1 Etymology 2 Origin 3 Belligerents 4 Causes for war 5 Battles 5.1 Pequot raids 5.2 The Mystic massacre 5.3 War 's end 6 Aftermath 7 Historical accounts and controversies 8 Documentaries 9 See also 10 Notes 11 Bibliography 11.1 Primary sources 11.2 Secondary sources 12 External links Etymology The name Pequot is a Mohegan term, the meaning of which has been disputed among Algonquian - language specialists. Most recent sources claim that `` Pequot '' comes from Paquatauoq ( the destroyers ), relying on the theories of Frank Speck, an early 20th - century anthropologist and specialist of the Pequot - Mohegan language in the 1920s -- 1930s. He had doubts about this etymology, believing that another term seemed more plausible, after translation relating to the `` shallowness of a body of water ''. Origin The Pequot people and their traditional enemies the Mohegans were at one time a single sociopolitical entity. Anthropologists and historians contend that they split into the two competing groups sometime before contact with the Puritan English colonists. The earliest historians of the Pequot War speculated that the Pequot people migrated from the upper Hudson River Valley toward central and eastern Connecticut sometime around 1500. These claims are disputed by the evidence of modern archaeology and anthropology finds. In the 1630s, the Connecticut River Valley was in turmoil. The Pequots aggressively extended their area of control at the expense of the Wampanoags to the north, the Narragansetts to the east, the Connecticut River Valley Algonquians and Mohegans to the west, and the Lenape Algonquian people of Long Island to the south. The tribes contended for political dominance and control of the European fur trade. A series of epidemics over the course of the previous three decades had severely reduced the Indian populations, and there was a power vacuum in the area as a result. The Dutch and the English from Western Europe were also striving to extend the reach of their trade into the North American interior to achieve dominance in the lush, fertile region. The colonies were new at the time, the original settlements having been founded in the 1620s. By 1636, the Dutch had fortified their trading post, and the English had built a trading fort at Saybrook. English Puritans from the Massachusetts Bay and Plymouth colonies settled at the four recently established river towns of Windsor ( 1632 ), Wethersfield ( 1633 ), Hartford ( 1635 ), and Springfield ( 1636. ) Belligerents Lion Gardiner in the Pequot War from a Charles Stanley Reinhart drawing circa 1890 Pequot : Sachem Sassacus Eastern Niantic Western Niantic : Sachem Sassious Mohigg : Sachem Uncas Niantic Sagamore Wequash Narragansett : Sachem Miantonomo Montauk or ( Montaukett ) Massachusetts Bay Colony : Governors Henry Vane and John Winthrop, Captains John Underhill and John Endecott Plymouth Colony : Governors Edward Winslow and William Bradford, and Captain Myles Standish Connecticut Colony : Thomas Hooker, Captain John Mason, Robert Seeley, Lt. William Pratt ( c. 1609 -- 1670 ) Saybrook Colony : Lion Gardiner Causes for War Beginning in the early 1630s, a series of contributing factors increased the tensions between English colonists and the tribes of Southeastern New England. Efforts to control fur trade access resulted in a series of escalating incidents and attacks that increased tensions on both sides. Political divisions widened between the Pequots and Mohegans as they aligned with different trade sources, the Mohegans with the English and the Pequots with the Dutch. ( The peace did not last between the Dutch and Pequots. ) The Pequots assaulted a tribe of Indians who had tried to trade in the area of Hartford. Tensions grew as the Massachusetts Bay Colony became a stronghold for wampum production, which the Narragansetts and Pequots had controlled up until the mid 1630s. Adding to the tensions, John Stone ( English rogue, smuggler, and privateer ) and about seven of his crew were murdered in 1634 by the Niantics, Western tributary clients of the Pequots. According to the Pequots ' later explanations, they murdered him in reprisal for the Dutch murdering the principal Pequot sachem Tatobem, and they claimed to be unaware that Stone was English and not Dutch. ( Contemporaneous accounts claim that the Pequots knew Stone to be English. ) In the earlier incident, Tatobem had boarded a Dutch vessel to trade. Instead of conducting trade, the Dutch seized the sachem and appealed for a substantial amount of ransom for his safe return. The Pequots quickly sent bushels of wampum, but received only Tatobem 's dead body in return. Stone was from the West Indies and had been banished from Boston for malfeasance, including drunkenness, adultery, and piracy. He was known to have powerful connections in other colonies, as well as in London, and he was expected to use them against the Boston colony. Setting sail from Boston, Stone abducted two Western Niantic men, forcing them to show him the way up the Connecticut River. Soon after, he and his crew were suddenly attacked and killed by a larger group of Western Niantic. The initial reactions in Boston varied from indifference to outright joy at Stone 's death, but the colonial officials later decided to protest the killing. They did not accept the Pequots ' excuses that they had been unaware of Stone 's nationality. Pequot sachem Sassacus sent some wampum to atone for the killing, but refused the colonists ' demands that the warriors responsible for Stone 's death be turned over to them for trial and punishment. Additionally, according to historian Katherine Grandjean, the Great Colonial Hurricane of 1635 placed a great deal of pressure on the corn and other crop harvests of that year making food supplies scarce, thus creating conditions for much greater competition for winter food supplies for several years afterwards throughout much of coastal Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts. This in turn precipitated even greater tensions between the Pequots and English colonists who were ill - prepared to face periods of famine. A more proximate cause of the war was the 20 July 1636 killing of a respected trader named John Oldham who was attacked on a trading voyage to Block Island. He and several of his crew were killed and his ship looted by Narragansett - allied Indians who sought to discourage English settlers from trading with their Pequot rivals. In the weeks that followed, colonial officials from Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island, and Connecticut assumed that the Narragansetts were the likely culprits. The Puritan officials knew that the Indians of Block Island were allies of the Eastern Niantics, who were allied with the Narragansetts, and they became suspicious of the Narragansetts. The murderers meanwhile escaped and were given sanctuary with the Pequots. Battles Engraving depicting Endecott 's landing on Block Island News of Oldham 's death became the subject of sermons in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. In August, Governor Vane sent John Endecott to exact revenge on the Indians of Block Island. Endecott 's party of roughly 90 men sailed to Block Island and attacked two apparently abandoned Niantic villages. Most of the Niantic escaped, while two of Endecott 's men were injured. The English claimed to have killed 14, but later Narragansett reports claimed that only one Indian was killed on the island. The Massachusetts Bay militia burned the villages to the ground. They carried away crops which the Niantic had stored for winter and destroyed what they could not carry. Endecott went on to Fort Saybrook. The English at Saybrook were not happy about the raid, but agreed that some of them would accompany Endecott as guides. Endecott sailed along the coast to a Pequot village, where he repeated the previous year 's demand for those responsible for the death of Stone, and now also for those who murdered Oldham. After some discussion, Endecott concluded that the Pequots were stalling and attacked, but most escaped into the woods. Endecott had his forces burn down the village and crops before sailing home. Pequot raids In the aftermath, the English of Connecticut Colony had to deal with the anger of the Pequots. The Pequots attempted to get their allies to join their cause, some 36 tributary villages, but were only partly effective. The Western Niantic ( Nehantic ) joined them, but the Eastern Niantic ( Nehantic ) remained neutral. The traditional enemies of the Pequot, the Mohegan and the Narragansett, openly sided with the English. The Narragansetts had warred with and lost territory to the Pequots in 1622. Now their friend Roger Williams urged the Narragansetts to side with the English against the Pequots. Through the autumn and winter, Fort Saybrook was effectively besieged. People who ventured outside were killed. As spring arrived in 1637, the Pequots stepped up their raids on Connecticut towns. On April 23, Wongunk chief Sequin attacked Wethersfield with Pequot help. They killed six men and three women, a number of cattle and horses, and took two young girls captive. ( They were daughters of William Swaine and were later ransomed by Dutch traders. ) In all, the towns lost about thirty settlers. In May, leaders of Connecticut river towns met in Hartford, raised a militia, and placed Captain John Mason in command. Mason set out with ninety militia and seventy Mohegan warriors under Uncas ; their orders were to directly attack the Pequot at their fort. At Fort Saybrook, Captain Mason was joined by John Underhill with another twenty men. Underhill and Mason then sailed from Fort Saybrook to Narragansett Bay, a tactic intended to mislead Pequot spies along the shoreline into thinking that the English were not intending an attack. After gaining the support of 200 Narragansetts, Mason and Underhill marched their forces with Uncas and Wequash Cooke approximately twenty miles towards Mistick Fort ( present - day Mystic ). They briefly camped at Porter 's Rocks near the head of the Mystic River before mounting a surprise attack just before dawn. The Mystic Massacre Engraving depicting the attack on the Pequot fort at Mystic, from John Underhill Newes from America, London, 1638 Main article : Mystic massacre The Mystic massacre started in the predawn hours of May 26, 1637 when English forces led by Captains John Mason and John Underhill, along with their allies from the Mohegan and Narragansett tribes, surrounded one of two main fortified Pequot villages at Mistick. Only 20 soldiers breached the palisade 's gate and were quickly overwhelmed, to the point that they used fire to create chaos and facilitate their escape from within. The ensuing conflagration trapped the majority of the Pequots and caused their death ; those who managed to exit were slain by the sword or musket from the others who surrounded the fort. Only a handful of approximately 500 men, women, and children survived what became known as the Battle of Mistick Fort. As the soldiers made the exhausted withdrawal march to their boats, they faced several attacks by frantic warriors from the other village of Weinshauks, but again the Pequots suffered very heavy losses versus relatively few by the Colonists. Mason later declared that the attack against the Pequots was the act of a God who `` laughed his Enemies and the Enemies of his People to scorn making ( the Pequot fort ) as a fiery Oven... Thus did the Lord judge among the Heathen, filling ( Mystic ) with dead Bodies. '' Of the estimated 500 Pequots present at Mystic that day, only seven survived to be taken prisoner, while another seven escaped to the woods. The Narragansetts and Mohegans with Mason and Underhill 's colonial militia were horrified by the actions and `` manner of the Englishmen 's fight... because it is too furious, and slays too many men. '' The Narragansetts attempted to leave and return home but were cut off by the Pequots from the other village of Weinshauks and had to be rescued by Underhill 's men -- after which they reluctantly rejoined the colonists for protection and were utilized to carry the wounded, thereby freeing up more soldiers to fend off the numerous attacks along the withdrawal route. War 's end The destruction of people and the village at Mistick Fort and losing even more warriors during the withdrawal pursuit broke the Pequot spirit, and they decided to abandon their villages and flee westward to seek refuge with the Mohawk tribe. Sassacus led roughly 400 warriors along the coast ; when they crossed the Connecticut River, the Pequots killed three men whom they encountered near Fort Saybrook. In mid-June, John Mason set out from Saybrook with 160 men and 40 Mohegan scouts led by Uncas. They caught up with the refugees at Sasqua, a Mattabesic village near present - day Fairfield, Connecticut. The colonists memorialized this event as the Fairfield Swamp Fight ( not to be confused with the Great Swamp Fight during King Philip 's War ). The English surrounded the swamp and allowed several hundred to surrender, mostly women and children, but Sassacus slipped out before dawn with perhaps eighty warriors and continued west. Sassacus and his followers had hoped to gain refuge among the Mohawk in present - day New York. However, the Mohawk instead murdered him and his bodyguard, afterwards sending his head and hands to Hartford ( for reasons which were never made clear ). This essentially ended the Pequot War ; colonial officials continued to call for hunting down what remained of the Pequots after war 's end, but they granted asylum to any who went to live with the Narragansetts or Mohegans. Aftermath In September, the Mohegans and Narragansetts met at the General Court of Connecticut and agreed on the disposition of the Pequot survivors. The agreement is known as the first Treaty of Hartford and was signed on September 21, 1638. About 200 Pequots survived the war ; they finally gave up and submitted themselves under the authority of the sachem of the Mohegans or Naragansetts : There were then given to Onkos, Sachem of Monheag, Eighty ; to Myan Tonimo, Sachem of Narragansett, Eighty ; and to Nynigrett, Twenty, when he should satisfy for a Mare of Edward Pomroye 's killed by his Men. The Pequots were then bound by Covenant, That none should inhabit their native Country, nor should any of them be called PEQUOTS any more, but Moheags and Narragansatts for ever. Other Pequots were enslaved and shipped to Bermuda or the West Indies, or were forced to become household slaves in English households in Connecticut and Massachusetts Bay. The Colonies essentially declared the Pequots extinct by prohibiting them from using the name any longer. The colonists attributed their victory over the hostile Pequot tribe to an act of God : Let the whole Earth be filled with his glory ! Thus the lord was pleased to smite our Enemies in the hinder Parts, and to give us their Land for an Inheritance. This was the first instance wherein Algonquian peoples of southern New England encountered European - style warfare. After the Pequot War, there were no significant battles between Indians and southern New England colonists for about 38 years. This long period of peace came to an end in 1675 with King Philip 's War. Historical accounts and controversies The earliest accounts of the Pequot War were written within one year of the war. Later histories recounted events from a similar perspective, restating arguments first used by military leaders such as John Underhill and John Mason, as well as Puritans Increase Mather and his son Cotton Mather. Recent historians and others have reviewed these accounts. In 2004, an artist and archaeologist teamed up to evaluate the sequence of events in the Pequot War. Their popular history took issue with events and whether John Mason and John Underhill wrote the accounts that appeared under their names. The authors have been adopted as honorary members of the Lenape Pequots. Most modern historians do not debate questions of the outcome of the battle or its chronology, such as Alfred A. Cave, a specialist in the ethnohistory of colonial America. However, Cave contends that Mason and Underhill 's eyewitness accounts, as well as the contemporaneous histories of Mather and Hubbard, were more `` polemical than substantive. '' Alden T. Vaughan writes that the Pequots were not `` solely or even primarily responsible '' for the war. `` The Bay colony 's gross escalation of violence... made all - out war unavoidable ; until then, negotiation was at least conceivable. '' Documentaries In 2004, PBS aired the television documentary Mystic Voices : The Story of the Pequot War. The Mystic Massacre was featured in the 2006 History Channel series 10 Days that Unexpectedly Changed America. See also History of Connecticut Indian massacre Philip Vincent Notes Jump up ^ John Winthrop, Journal of John Winthrop. ed. Dunn, Savage, Yeandle ( Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 1996 ), 228. Jump up ^ Lion Gardiner, `` Relation of the Pequot Warres '', in History of the Pequot War : The Contemporary Accounts of Mason, Underhill, Vincent, and Gardiner ( Cleveland, 1897 ), p. 138 ; Ethel Boissevain, `` Whatever Became of the New England Indians Shipped to Bermuda to be Sold as Slaves, '' Man in the Northwest 11 ( Spring 1981 ), pp. 103 -- 114 ; Karen O. Kupperman, Providence Island, 1630 -- 1641 : The Other Puritan Colony ( Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 1993 ), p. 172 Jump up ^ Laurence M. Hauptman and James D. Wherry, eds. The Pequots in Southern New England : The Fall and Rise of an Indian Nation ( Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, 1990 ). Jump up ^ Jeff Benedict, Without Reservation, Harper Books, 2001 Jump up ^ Frank Speck, `` Native Tribes and Dialects of Connecticut : A Monhigg - Pequot Diary, '' Annual Reports of the U.S. Bureau of Ethnology 43 ( 1928 ) : 218. Jump up ^ See Carrol Alton Means, `` Mohegan - Pequot Relationships, as Indicated by the Events Leading to the Pequot Massacre of 1637 and Subsequent Claims in the Mohegan Land Controversy, '' Archaeological Society of Connecticut Bulletin 21 ( 1947 ) : 26 - 33. Jump up ^ For archaeological investigations disproving Hubbard 's theory of origin, see Irving Rouse, `` Ceramic Traditions and Sequences in Connecticut, '' Archaeological Society of Connecticut Bulletin 21 ( 1947 ) : 25 ; Kevin McBride, `` Prehistory of the Lower Connecticut Valley '' ( Ph. D. diss., University of Connecticut, 1984 ), pp. 126 -- 28, 199 -- 269 ; and the overall evidence on the question of Pequot origin in Means, `` Mohegan - Pequot Relationships, '' 26 -- 33. For historical research, refer to Alfred A. Cave, `` The Pequot Invasion of Southern New England : A Reassessment of the Evidence, '' New England Quarterly 62 ( 1989 ) : 27 -- 44 ; and for linguistic research, see Truman D. Michelson, `` Notes on Algonquian Language, '' International Journal of American Linguistics 1 ( 1917 ) : 56 - 57. Jump up ^ See Alfred W. Crosby, `` Virgin Soil Epidemics as a Factor in the Aboriginal Depopulation in America, '' William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd Ser., vol. 33, no. 2 ( Apr. 1976 ), pp. 289 -- 299 ; Arthur E. Spiero and Bruce E. Speiss, `` New England Pandemic of 1616 - 1622 : Cause and Archaeological Implication, '' Man in the Northeast 35 ( 1987 ) : 71 -- 83 ; and Dean R. Snow and Kim M. Lamphear, `` European Contact and Indian Depopulation in the Northeast : The Timing of the First Epidemics, '' Ethnohistory 35 ( 1988 ) : 16 -- 38. Jump up ^ Ann C. Tweedy ( 5 Oct 2017 ). `` From Beads to Bounty - How Wampum Became America 's First Currency - And Lost Its Power ''. Indian Country Today. Archived from the original on 2017 - 12 - 09. Retrieved 9 Dec 2017. Jump up ^ `` In 1634 John Stone is Lost in the Connecticut Fog of War ''. New England Historical Society. Archived from the original on 2017 - 12 - 09. Retrieved 9 Dec 2017. Jump up ^ Alfred Cave, The Pequot War ( Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 1996 ), pp. 58 -- 60. Jump up ^ `` Archived copy ''. Archived from the original on 2016 - 06 - 25. Retrieved 2016 - 06 - 30. CS1 maint : Archived copy as title ( link ) p. 565 Jump up ^ Cave, The Pequot War, pp. 59 -- 60. Jump up ^ Cave, The Pequot War, pp. 72, 74. Jump up ^ Cave, The Pequot War, pp. 76. Jump up ^ Grandjean, Katherine A. ( 2011 ). New World Tempests : Environment, Scarcity, and the Coming of the Pequot War. The William and Mary Quarterly 68 ( 1 ) : 75 - 100. Jump up ^ Cave, The Pequot War, pp. 104 -- 105. Jump up ^ `` Archived copy '' ( PDF ). Archived ( PDF ) from the original on 2016 - 05 - 26. Retrieved 2016 - 07 - 12. CS1 maint : Archived copy as title ( link ) p. 491 Jump up ^ Atwater, Elias ( 1902 ). History of the Colony of New Haven to Its Absorption Into Connecticut. The Journal Publishing Company. p. 610. Jump up ^ Griswold, Wick ( 2012 ). A History of the Connecticut River. The History Press. p. 45. Jump up ^ Games, Alison ( 1999 ). Migration and the Origins of the English Atlantic World. Harvard College. p. 167. Jump up ^ `` The History of the Pequot War ''. pequotwar.org. Archived from the original on 2015 - 10 - 26. Retrieved 2015 - 11 - 06. Jump up ^ John Mason 's justification for burning Mystic in A Brief History of the Pequot War : Especially of the Memorable taking of their Fort at Mistick in Connecticut in 1637 ( Boston : S. Kneeland & T. Green, 1736 ), p. 30. Jump up ^ Mason, John. A Brief History of the Pequot War : Especially of the Memorable taking of their Fort at Mistick in Connecticut in 1637 ( Boston : S. Kneeland & T. Green, 1736 ), p. 10. Archived 2009 - 04 - 30 at the Wayback Machine. Jump up ^ William Bradford, Of Plimoth Plantation, 1620 -- 1647, ed. Samuel Eliot Morison ( New York, NY : Alfred A. Knopf, 1966 ), p. 29. Jump up ^ John Underhill, Newes from America ; or, A New and Experimentall Discoverie of New England : Containing, a True Relation of their War - like Proceedings these two yeares last past, with a figure of the Indian fort, or Palizado ( London : I. D ( awson ) for Peter Cole, 1638 ), p. 84. ^ Jump up to : `` Archived copy ''. Archived from the original on 2016 - 06 - 25. Retrieved 2016 - 06 - 30. CS1 maint : Archived copy as title ( link ) p. 582 ^ Jump up to : Mason, John ( 1736 ). Paul Royster, ed. `` A Brief History of the Pequot War ''. University of Nebraska - Lincoln. Archived from the original on 2009 - 04 - 30. Retrieved 2009 - 01 - 01. Jump up ^ William Bradford and other contemporaries indicate that the Pequots who chose to were permitted to join with the Narragansett or Mohegan tribes -- in the capacity of freemen, not as slaves. For first - hand accounts, see Lion Gardiner, `` Relation of the Pequot Warres '' in History of the Pequot War : The Contemporary Accounts of Mason, Underhill, Vincent, and Gardiner ( Cleveland, 1897 ), p. 138, and John Mason 's account in the same volume. Jump up ^ For historical analyses of Pequot enslavement, see Michael L. Fickes, `` ' They Could Not Endure That Yoke ' : The Captivity of Pequot Women and Children after the War of 1637, '' New England Quarterly, vol. 73, no. 1. ( Mar., 2000 ), pp. 58 -- 81 ; Ethel Boissevain, `` Whatever Became of the New England Indians Shipped to Bermuda to be Sold as Slaves, '' Man in the Northwest 11 ( Spring 1981 ), pp. 103 -- 114 ; and Karen O. Kupperman, Providence Island, 1630 -- 1641 : The Other Puritan Colony ( Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 1993 ), p. 172. Jump up ^ For a 19th - century account that reflects Mason, Underhill, and the Mathers, see William Hubbard, The History of the Indian Wars in New England 2 vols. ( Boston : Samuel G. Drake, 1845 ), II : 6 -- 7. For narratives from the late 18th century, see Thomas Hutchinson, The History of the Colony and Province of Massachusetts Bay ( 1793 ) ; Francis Parkman, France and England in North America, ed. David Levin ( New York, NY : Viking Press, 1983 ) : I : 1084, in addition to Richard Hildreth, The History of the United States of America 6 vols ( New York, 1856 ), I : 237 -- 42 ; and Howard Bradstreet, The History of the War with the Pequots Retold ( New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, 1933 ) for the first half of the twentieth century. Jump up ^ Jack Dempsey and David R. Wagner ( 2004 ). Mystic Fiasco : How the Indians Won The Pequot War. Jump up ^ Cave, The Pequot War, p. 2 Jump up ^ Alden T. Vaughan, `` Pequots and Puritans : The Causes of the War of 1637, '' in Roots of American Racism : Essays on the Colonial Experience ( New York : Oxford University Press, 1995 ), p. 194. Bibliography Primary sources Bradford, William. 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Question: what was the effect of the pequot war
Answer: the elimination of the Pequot tribe as a viable polity in Southern New England