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Mar 10, 2010 · In March 1676, a party of Narragansett destroyed a company of English soldiers and their Native American allies along the Blackstone River, and after negotiations brokered by Williams failed, the...
- Missy Sullivan
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Mar 16, 2021 · In 1622, the Dutch established a trading post on the Connecticut River near modern-day Hartford and welcomed trade with all the indigenous tribes of the region, but the Pequot, who were by this time even more powerful, subdued the Narragansett, and cornered the market, forbidding others from trading with the Dutch.
- Joshua J. Mark
The Narragansetts' near-monopoly over intercultural trade was short lived. Sometime around 1630, the Pequots of eastern Connecti-cut began to challenge their Narragansett rivals by launching an ex-pansionist drive westward, along the coast of Long Island Sound, to-ward the Connecticut River. Hoping to control the wampum-fur trade
Nov 8, 2023 · Some changes came through treaties, trade, and disease. The Narragansett benefited from all three, but especially the disease. The Algonquian-speaking people along the eastern coast were ravaged by disease between 1616 - 1619, which weakened many of the tribes around the Narragansett.
Jul 12, 2008 · The local peoples began trading with the Dutch, and the Pequots struck back, killing a group of Native Americans on their way to the Dutch trading house. And, in 1634, Captain John Stone, lately of Massachusetts Bay Colony, was killed as he put in for the night on the banks of the Connecticut River on his journey to Virginia.
Sep 17, 2024 · Pequot War, war fought in 1636–37 by the Pequot people against a coalition of English settlers from the Massachusetts Bay, Connecticut, and Saybrook colonies and their Native American allies (including the Narragansett and Mohegan) that eliminated the Pequot as an impediment to English colonization of southern New England.
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Jul 17, 2024 · In return for tributes paid in wampum, corn and animal skins, the Pequots provided their tributaries with European trade goods derived from their Dutch allies and offered protection from attacks by rival Indigenous groups, primarily the Mohawks, who lived west of the Hudson River.
