John Mason Biography
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John Mason (c. 1600–1672) was born in
England where he became an army officer. He migrated to New England in
1630. Within five years he had joined those moving west from the
Massachusetts Bay Colony to the nascent settlements along the
Connecticut River that would become the Connecticut Colony. Tensions
there rose between the settles and the dominant tribe in the area, the
Pequots, ultimately leading to bloodshed. After some English settlers
were found dead, the Connecticut Colony appointed Mason to lead an
expedition against the Pequot stronghold in Mystic, Connecticut. The
results is known as the Mystic Massacre and it was the major engagement
of the Pequot War which virtually destroyed the Pequot tribe.
After the war, Mason became Deputy Governor
of Connecticut. He and a number of others were instrumental in the
founding of Norwich, Connecticut, where he died in 1672.
Further reading
Mason, John. A Brief History of the Pequot
War (1736) (reprinted by J. Sabin & sons, 1869)
Mason, L. B. The life and times of Major
John Mason of Connecticut, 1600-1672 (Putnam, 1935).
Cave, Alfred A. The Pequot War (University
of Massachusetts Press, 1996)
Bradstreet, Howard. The Story of the War
with the Pequots Re-Told (1933)
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