Bill: I had started a response to your previous message but didn't get it finished. However, I was going to say that you had jumped to about 50 years later than what we were discussing concerning the Plymouth settlement in 1620. The Pequot War in 1637 would serve better to show that the people in the Plymouth Colony were not as tolerant of the Native Americans as has generally been assumed. From The American Heritage History of the Thirteen Colonies. (1967), p. 162: The first. settlers found the coastal tribes so decimated by an epidemic that they made little resistance to the white invaders. Occasional quarrels between white traders and Indians caused trouble to outlying settlements. A series of murders and punitive measures by the whites led in 1637 to an outbreak of war with the Pequot Indians in the lower Connecticut Valley in which that tribe was virtually annihilated. Captain John Mason led an; expedition that surrounded more than four hundred of the Pepuots in a palisaded fort on the Mystic River. Setting fire to the fort in the night, Mason's men burned all but seven of the occupants to death. William Bradford, describing; this episode, commented: "It was conceived they thus destroyed about 400 at this time. It was a fearfull sight to see them thus frying in the fyer, and the streams of blood quenching the same, and horrible was the stinck and sente ther of; but the victory seemed a sweete sacrifice, and they gaye the prays thereof to God, who had wrought so wonderfuly for them, thus inclose their enimise in their hands, and give them so speedy a victory over so proud and insulting an enimie." "Before the campaign against the Pequots was over, militiamen had killed or captured more than seven hundred Indians. Indian Captives were highly prized, for they could be sold as slaves in the West Indies or traded for more tractable Negro slaves. The Reverend Hugh Pater wrote to Governor Winthrop requesting a few slaves for himself: "Sir, Mr. Endicot and myself salute you in the Lord Jesus. Wee have heard of a dividence of women and children in the bay and would bee glad of a share viz: a young woman or girle and a boy if you thinke good. I wrote to you for some boyes for Bermudas, which I thinke is considerable." They got seventeen Indian slaves fifteen boys and two women." In the time line for the Plymouth Colony for 1637 we have: January: William Bradford chosen governor. March: The first mention of Cohannet, which became known as Taunton. April: A group of ten men from Saugus in Massachusetts Bay Colony received permission to settle in Plymouth Colony. They chose the future Sandwich. Plymouth and Mass Bay disputed over the border between the two colonies. The line was finally established between Hingham and Scituate in June, 1640. June: Duxbury was declared a township. The Plymouth Court declared that it would send a force to help the men of Massachusetts Bay and Connecticut against the Pequots, but the war was over before the force was sent out. More later, Thurmon On Sat, 10 Apr 2004 15:43:58 EDT Sackettbill@aol.com writes: > I would like to apologize to Mary Lou and everyone else, for the angry tone > of my posting about Pilgrim tolerance in relation to King Philips War. My > friend Chief Frank Whiteeagle of the Wampanoag (Seaconk), can tell of a different > perspective about these events of American history. Sorry. Bill