Article: Pequot War
The Oxford Companion to United States History;      321 words ...Pequot War (1636–1637).The Pequot War originated in conflicts over trade and colonization in...crops, after which the Pequots besieged Connecticut's Fort Saybrook. In April 1637 the Pequots raided Wethersfield, Connecticut...England, 1500–1643 , 1982. Alfred A. Cave , The ...

Article: Mason, John
The Oxford Companion to American Literature;      82 words ......Massachusetts Bay Colony (c. 1630), where he became the military hero of the Pequot War and later commander in chief of the colony and holder of various offices...Allyn. The work was edited by Thomas Prince as A Brief History of the Pequot War (1736).

Article: John Mason
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      107 words ......After this campaign—generally called the Pequot War—Major Mason was a distinguished political...death. Bibliography: See his narrative of the Pequot War in A Brief History of the Pequot War (1736, repr. 1971); biography by L. B. Mason...

Article: Pequot Indians
The Oxford Companion to American Literature;      111 words ......members of the tribe were dispersed among other groups. The best account of the Pequot War is that of the English commander John Mason in his Brief History of the Pequot War, edited by Thomas Prince (1736). Another officer, John Underhill, described...

Article: Lion Gardiner
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      51 words ......with patentees of Connecticut, Gardiner designed and erected (1635-36) the blockhouse at Saybrook, which he defended in the Pequot War (1636-37). He purchased (1639) Gardiner's Island from Native Americans and founded there the first English colony in present-d...

Article: John Oldham
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      68 words ......in establishing the unsuccessful settlement on Cape Ann (1626), several of the settlements in the Massachusetts Bay colony, and Wethersfield, Conn. His murder by the Pequot on Block Island was one of the events leading to the Pequot War (1637).

Article: 1600-1754: Native Americans: Topics in the News
American Eras;      26 words ...1600-1754: Native Americans: Topics in the News Early Virginia French-English Rivalries Iroquois Metacom ’ s War The Pequot War Reservations The Southeast Trade

Article: Endecott, John
The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military;      59 words ......governor or deputy governor between 1629 and 1664. He led an ineffectual expedition against the Pequot (1636), who had been attacking isolated settlements. Their attacks resumed, and they were wiped out the following year in the Pequot War (1637).

Article: Miantonomo
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      109 words ..., d. 1643, chief of the Narragansett; nephew of another chief, Canonicus. In 1637 he aided the English colonists in the Pequot War. The following year he was induced to make a treaty of peace with the English and with his ancient enemy, Uncas . Miantonomo...

Article: Uncas
The Oxford Companion to American Literature;      111 words ...Uncas (fl.1600–1683), chief of the Mohegan Indians , sided with the British in the Pequot War (1637), figures as the titular character in The Last of the Mohicans , and also appears in Cooper's Wept of Wish‐ton‐...

Article: Narragansett Indians
The Oxford Companion to American Literature;      81 words ......Williams, whose study of the tribe is contained in his Key into the Language of America (1643), to assist the colonists in the Pequot War. During King Philip's War they were suspected of treachery, and in an engagement of 1675, known as the “Swamp Fight...

Article: Adams, John Turvill
The Oxford Companion to American Literature;      45 words ......England novelist, whose books include The Lost Hunter (1856), laid in 19th‐century Connecticut; and The White Chief Among the Red Men; or, Knight of the Golden Melice (1859), a tale dealing with Sir Christopher Gardiner and the Pequot War.

Article: John Underhill
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      133 words ......1588-1649) to Massachusetts Bay, and in 1637 he distinguished himself as a commander with John Mason (c.1600-1672) in the Pequot War, of which he wrote an account in Newes from America (1638). Because of his ardent support of Anne Hutchinson in the antinomian...

Article: Underhill, John
The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military;      128 words ......Massachusetts Bay in 1630 to organize the colonial militia. He was appointed captain of the militia and played a major role in the Pequot War in 1637. Afterwards he got in trouble with the Puritan administration for his religious beliefs and lost his position. He...