After the Restoration prompted a bloody revolt by Thomas Venner’s Fifth Monarchist group in London, Charles II cast a wary eye on New England. Meanwhile, regicides Whalley and Goffe had escaped punishment in England to make their home in Massachusetts. The fallout would lead to the end of New Haven as a colony. Patreon BuyMeACoffee Read more about Restoration 2: hopes of paradise lost[…]
Featuring an elk that decided to bugle during my recording, this episode discusses the first witch trials in American history. Forty years before the Salem Witch Trials, these happened mostly in Bermuda and Connecticut, with a few in Massachusetts. Bermuda was a disaster, Connecticut had a disaster of a legal system, and over a dozen Read more about ECW 27: Witch trials in the Devil’s Isles[…]
Listen on: iTunes Subscribe on Android Stitcher and more The Treaty of Hartford After a few months of clean-up, taking down various tribes of Pequots and killing the tribe’s remaining warriors, Connecticut met with the Narragansetts and Mohegans to establish peace and distribute the spoils of war. Connecticut claimed the won lands, something which prompted a Read more about Massachusetts Bay 13: The Pequot War pt. 3[…]
Listen on: iTunes Subscribe on Android Stitcher and more From Saybrook to Mystic After the Block Island Raid, the Pequots sieged Saybrook, and attacked Wethersfield. Massachusetts and Connecticut declared war, and prepared a surprise attack in the heart of Pequot territory. They marched to the tribe’s biggest fort, Mystic, and over the course of an hour, Read more about Massachusetts Bay 12: The Pequot War pt. 2[…]
Listen on: iTunes Subscribe on Android Stitcher and more A series of unfortunate misunderstandings In 1637, the Pequots were a tribe on the decline. A plague had killed 80% of their population, the Dutch had started trading with other tribes, and in a trade dispute, the Dutch had killed their leading sachem – Tatobem. Tatobem’s death had Read more about Massachusetts Bay 11: The Pequot War pt. 1[…]
Listen on: iTunes Subscribe on Android Stitcher and more The Saybrook Patent The Earl of Warwick had, in 1631, granted a piece of land in modern Connecticut to a group of his friends and family. He’d lost leadership of the Council for New England as a result of the dubiously legal act, but in 1635, colonists Read more about Episode 7: Connecticut and Rhode Island[…]