Tensions between this Native American group and colonists grew due to their refusal to trade with the English rather than the Dutch, leading to attacks on several English ships.
Tensions between this Native American group and colonists grew due to their refusal to trade with the English rather than the Dutch, leading to attacks on several English ships. When the treacherous trader John Oldham was killed by several of these Indians, the failure to turn the killers over to a delegation led by John Endicott led to a series of raids involving Massachusetts and Connecticut, culminating in John Mason's devastating attack on an Indian settlement on the Mystic River and the capture of Sassacut, who was sold into slavery, virtually ending this Indian group existence. FTP, what is this group, the namesake of a 1636-37 war whose name is similar to Captain Ahab's ship in "Moby Dick"?
Tensions between this Native American group and colonists grew due to their refusal to trade with the English rather than the Dutch, leading to attacks on several English ships.
Pequot