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Article: The Pequot War
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The Pequot War
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Between 1634 and 1638 the population of the Massachusetts Bay Colony rose from about four thousand to more than eleven thousand all as a result of migration from England. As new arrivals began to crowd the coastal areas, Puritan colonists began to look to their west, into territory controlled by the Pequots and their allies, for additional lands. In 1635 colonists led by the former Baptist minister Thomas Hooker left present-day Cambridge, Massachusetts, and established the colony of Hartford. Simultaneously, a group of squatters
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settlers with little or no legal claim to the land
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from Watertown moved near the Pequot town of Pyquag and ...
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Article: John Mason
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;
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... ... this campaign—generally called the Pequot War—Major Mason was a distinguished ... Bibliography: See his narrative of the Pequot War in A Brief History of the Pequot War (1736, repr. 1971); biography by L ...
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