The origins of this event include the death of John Stone, a smuggler and privateer, and the later killing of merchant John Oldham.
The origins of this event include the death of John Stone, a smuggler and privateer, and the later killing of merchant John Oldham. The latter death prompted Governor Henry Vane of the to send a force led by John Endecott to Block Island, where Endecott and his men attacked and burned a Niantic village to the ground. A winter siege of Fort Saybrook and raids on local towns by this conflict's namesake led the Connecticut Colony to raise a force consisting of 90 militia and 70 Mohegans. Mason's force conducted the Mystic Massacre in, for 10 points, what 1636-1637 war in which Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay colonies pretty much exterminated the namesake tribe?
The origins of this event include the death of John Stone, a smuggler and privateer, and the later killing of merchant John Oldham.
{Pequot} War