Puritan War on Pequot 1636 & King Phillip War

Genocide of Pequots
by Plymouth Colony, 1636

"In a little more than one hour, five or six hundred of these barbarians
were dismissed from a world that was burdened with them."

"It may be demanded...Should not Christians have more mercy and
compassion? But...sometimes the Scripture declareth women and children must perish with their
parents.... We had sufficient light from the word of God for our proceedings."

-Puritan divine Cotton Mather, Magnalia Christi Americana

The colonist army surrounded a fortified Pequot village on the Mystic River. At sunrise, as the
inhabitants slept, the Puritan soldiers set the village on fire.

William Bradford, Governor of Plymouth, wrote: "Those that escaped the fire were slain with the
sword; some hewed to pieces, others run through with their rapiers, so that they were quickly
dispatched and very few escaped. It was conceived they thus destroyed about 400 at this time. It
was a fearful sight to see them thus frying in the fire...horrible was the stink and scent thereof, but
the victory seemed a sweet sacrifice, and they gave the prayers thereof to God, who had wrought
so wonderfully for them."

Three hundred and fifty years later the Puritan phrase "a shining city on the hill" became a favorite
quote of Ronald Reagan's speechwriters.

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Below are Puritan War on Pequots reference pages from David E. Stannard's work
AMERICAN HOLOCAUST, CONQUEST OF THE NEW WORLD
Oxford Press, 1992

Page 112
Page 113
Page 114
Page 115

KING PHILLIPS WAR, 1675-1676
Page 116
Page 117

PEQUOTS ARE NOT EXTINCT

Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation
http://www.mashantucket.com/update/history.html

"With the assistance of the Native American Rights Fund and the Indian Rights Association, the Tribe filed suit
in 1976 against neighboring landowners to recover land that had been sold by the State of Connecticut in 1856.
Seven years later the Pequots reached a settlement with the landowners, who agreed that the 1856 sale was
illegal, and who joined the Tribe in seeking the state government's support. The state responded, and the
Connecticut Legislature unanimously passed legislation to petition the federal government to grant tribal
recognition to the Mashantucket Pequots and settle the claim. With help from the Connecticut delegation, the
Mashantucket Pequot Indian Land Claims Settlement Act was enacted by the U.S. Congress and signed by
President Reagan on Oct. 18, 1983. It granted the Tribe federal recognition, enabling it to repurchase and place
in trust the land covered in the Settlement Act. Currently, the reservation is 1,250 acres."