Pequot War

Timeline

1. 1636Block Island and the Mystic River coast · New EnglandIn 1636 the killing of English trader John Oldham set off the conflict; the Massachusetts Bay Colony sent John Endecott on an expedition against Block Island and Pequot territory, burning villages and destroying supplies, formally opening the war. The Pequot then counterattacked coastal colonial outposts.
2. 1637Mystic (main Pequot village) · ConnecticutAt dawn on May 26, 1637, John Mason led a combined force of English colonists and Narragansett and Mohegan allies in a surprise attack on the main Pequot village at Mystic, setting it ablaze and surrounding those trying to escape; some 400 to 700 Pequot died, most of them women and children. It was one of the bloodiest massacres in colonial North American history and utterly destroyed Pequot resistance.
3. 1638Hartford · ConnecticutIn 1638 the colonies, together with the Narragansett and Mohegan tribes, signed the Treaty of Hartford, formally ending the war. The treaty banned use of the name Pequot, assigned survivors to the victorious Indian tribes or into slavery, and ceded their territory to the colonists, allowing colonial power to expand far inland.