| Trouble began with Captain Stone in 1633. Stone had a bad reputation far and wide. He was a Dutchman sailing under an English flag. He anchored at the mouth of the Connecticut River to trade with the Indians. Then he decided to go further up the river. My picture shows how one night an Indian murdered Captain Stone on his ship. |
| -- Jessie Karsif |
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| First there was the murder of John Oldham and that occurred somewhere near Block Island. The Massachusetts Bay Colony officials were thinking the Pequot Indians had something to do with the murder. So the Massachusettes Bay Colony sent John Endicott down to the Pequot's land. All he really did was stir up trouble. When Endicott went to the village, the natives stalled him by talking with Endicott's men that he had picked up in Old Saybrook (these men knew the Pequots). While they were talking, the rest of the Pequots escaped. When Endicott started firing his gun, there were no Pequots left to kill. When Sassacus, the Pequot leader, returned from what is now Long Island, he was very upset to learn of the attack. He and his men tried to push the colonists out of their territory. |
| -- Ellie Julier |
| One day two men went hunting on a small island just up the river from the Old Saybrook Colony. They often went there to hunt for birds. All of a sudden Pequots jumped out of the bushes and killed the two men. Then they scalped them and hung the scalps on a post for all the Englishmen at Fort Saybrook to see. But before the Indians had a chance to put the scalps up, the English had sent out two other men to look for the other two that were missing. But of course, the same thing happened to them. Their scalps were also hung on the post. Later on some men were sailing up the river when the Pequots attacked them. They did not kill them. They did something worse. They hung them up on the posts and tortured them so much that everyone at the fort could hear the screaming. After many days of this, the settlers eventually sneaked out of the fort to get close enough to shoot them to put them out of their misery. |
| -- Ethan Frei |
Calves Island
Finally the colonists got together to begin a major attack on the Pequots, the Pequot War.
