Early Colonial New England Conflicts

1620 Plymouth Colony Settlement

 * Familypedia:Plymouth Colony

1636-37 Pequot Indian War

 * John Oldham (1592-1636) - Murder of old trader triggers Anglo-Indian conflict

1643 Pelham Bay Massacre

 * Anne Marbury (1591-1643), famous religionist and much of her family are killed after moving from Massachusetts to the Bronx (New Amsterdam) by Indians

1645 Lenape Tribe attack

 * Samuel Luther (1636-1716) - survives Indian massacre at age 9

1675-76 King PHilip's War
When officials in Plymouth Colony hanged three Wampanoags in 1675 for the murder of a Christianized Indian, Metacom's alliance launched a united assault on colonial towns throughout the region.

1692 Salem Witch Trials

 * Salem witch trials

1697 King Williams War
King William's War (1688–97, also known as the Second Indian War, Father Baudoin's War, Castin's War, or the First Intercolonial War in French) was the North American theater of the Nine Years' War (1688–97, also known as the War of the Grand Alliance or the War of the League of Augsburg). It was the first of six colonial wars (see the four French and Indian Wars, Father Rale's War and Father Le Loutre's War) fought between New France and New England along with their respective Native allies before France ceded its remaining mainland territories in North America east of the Mississippi River in 1763.


 * Hanna Emerson (1657-1738) - taken captive during the Raid on Haverhill (1697), in which 27 colonists were killed.