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April 23: Surprise Pequot and Wangunk Attack on Wethersfield – Nine Dead; Two Girls Captured

  For the English colonists who settled along the banks of the Connecticut River in the 1630s, life in the “New World” was anything but easy. In addition to the challenges to food security caused by the unrelentingly harsh winters of the so-called Little Ice Age, the colonists’ relations with other colonies, as well as…

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April 23: Surprise Pequot and Wangunk Attack on Wethersfield – Nine Dead; Two Girls Captured

  For the English colonists who settled along the banks of the Connecticut River in the 1630s, life in the “New World” was anything but easy. In addition to the challenges to food security caused by the unrelentingly harsh winters of the so-called Little Ice Age, the colonists’ relations with other colonies, as well as…

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April 23: Surprise Pequot and Wangunk Attack on Wethersfield – Nine Dead; Two Girls Captured

  For the English colonists who settled along the banks of the Connecticut River in the 1630s, life in the “New World” was anything but easy. In addition to the challenges to food security caused by the unrelentingly harsh winters of the so-called Little Ice Age, the colonists’ relations with other colonies, as well as…

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