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    1. [GenConnecticut-L] PEQUOT INDIANS
    2. .....he was one of eighteen men from Wethersfield who fought in the Pequot Indian Campaign 26 May 1637, under the command of Capt. John Mason of Windsor (Bodge, Indian Wars, pp 11-16). His holdings in Wethersfield consisted ... <A HREF="http://members.aol.com/ggilb10335/Waterhouse.html">Waterhouse</A> ...sevety-seven soldiers, all but nineteen of whom were from Hartford and the other Connecticut River towns, who attacked and all but exterminated the Pequot Indians in the fort at Mystic. <A HREF="http://members.aol.com/ggilb10335/Cornwall.html">Cornwall</A> HALE, was born in 1610. He was in Wethersfield, Conn., in 1637. He served in the Pequot war, and received a grant of sixty acres of land from the General Court for his services in that war. <A HREF="http://members.aol.com/ggilb10335/Hale.html">Hale</A> The Pequot Massacre: Exemplifying the white man's own capacity for cruelty was the famed Pequot Massacre. <A HREF="http://www.maddoxinteractive.com/enquirer/native.htm">Native Americans</A> ... in the expedition commanded by Capt. John Mason, that captured the Pequot Fort at Mystic, Connecticut, May 26, 1637, killing about five hundred Indians <A HREF="http://members.aol.com/ggilb10335/Comstock.html">Comstock</A>

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