Mashantucket Pequot Research Library

The Pequot War

A Bibliography

Aylmer, Kevin J. “The Massacre of the Piney Wood Hills.” New England Galaxy 13 (Spring 1972): 20-8.

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Axelrod, Alan. "Trouble in New Canaan: The Pequot War (1634-1638): The Establishment of a Pattern." In Chronicle of the Indian Wars: From Colonial Times to Wounded Knee. New York: Prentice Hall, 1993.

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Bartocci, Clara. "Puritans Versus Pequots: Four Eye-witness Reports of the First War in Colonial New England." Storia Nordamericana 4 (1987): 71-91.

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Bell, James. The Charter Effect: The Amerindian, the Pequot War, and the Transformation of Englishmen into Americans. Dominguez Hills, CA: California State University, 1997. (Thesis)

READING ROOM: Pequot F 7 .B46 1997

Bencivengo, Frank. "The Atrocities of the Pequot War." Prize Essays in American History 1 (1992): 1-8.

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Bonifanti, Leo. The Pequot-Mohican War. Wakefield, MA: Pride Publications, 1971.

READING ROOM: Pequot E 99 .P53 B66 1971

Bourne, Russell. "The Battle that Shaped New England's Mind: The Pequot War of 1637." In The Red King's Rebellion: Racial Politics in New England 1675-1678. New York: Atheneum, 1990.

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Bradford, William. History of Plymouth Plantation, 1620-1647. New York: Russell and Russell, 1968. 2 Volumes.

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Bradstreet, Howard. The Story of the War with the Pequots, Re-told. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1933.

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Bryant, William Cullen & Sydney Howard Gay. "The Pequot War." In A Popular History of the United States, Volume 2. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1878.

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Burpee, Charles W. "Tried by War: Pequot Ambition and Massachusetts Precipitancy Test the Colony's Character." In Burpee's The Story of Connecticut. Volume I. New York: The American Historical Company, 1939.

READING ROOM: Local History F 94 .B87 1939 v.1

Cave, Alfred A. The Pequot War. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1996.

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________2. "Who Killed John Stone? A Note on the Origins of the Pequot War." William and Mary Quarterly 49 (1992): 509-21.

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Caverly, Robert Boodey. Battle of the Bush: Dramas Elaborated from the Startling Events of the New England Wars of an Hundred Years. Boston: R. Caverly, 1884.

READING ROOM: Pequot PS 1274 .C7 B38 1884

Collier, Thomas S. A History of the Statue Erected to Commemorate the Heroic Achievement of Maj. John Mason and his Comrades: With an Account of the Unveiling Ceremonies. New London, CT: The Commission, 1889.

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Connecticut. Governor and Company of Connecticut, and Moheagan Indians, by their Guardians. Certified Copy of Book of Proceedings before Commissioners of Review, 1743. London: W. & J. Richardson, 1769.

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Connole, Dennis A., The Indians of the Nipmuck Country in Southern New England, 1630-1750: An Historical Geography, Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 2001.

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Cook, Blanche Wiesen. "American Justifications for Military Massacres from the Pequot War to My Lai." Peace and Change 3 (1975): 4-20.

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Cook, Sherburne 1. "Interracial Warfare and Population Decline Among the New England Indians." Ethnohistory 20 (1973): 1-24.

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Cramer, Clayton E. Narragansett Stalking Horse: The English Role in the Pequot War. <http://cs.sonoma.edu/~cramerc/pequot.htm> Not accessible as of February 5, 2008

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Davis, Jefferson. "The Pequot War Retold." Red Buffalo (Summer 1971): 1-13.

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De Forest, L. Effingham. Captain John Underhill: Gentleman, Soldier of Fortune. New York: DeForest Publishing Company, 1934.

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Detzer, David. "The Causes of the Pequot War." The Connecticut Review (April 1967): 85-8.

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Fickes, Michael L. "They Could Not Endure That Yoke: The Captivity of Pequot Women and Children After the War of 1637." New England Quarterly LXXIII (March 2000): 58-81.
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Freeman, Michael. "Puritans and Pequots: The Question of Genocide." New England Quarterly 68 (1995): 278-93.

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Gardiner, Lion. History of the Pequot War, or, a Relation of the War Between the Powerful Nation of Pequot Indians, Once Inhabiting the Coast of New England, Westerly from Near Narragansett Bay and the English Inhabitants, in the year 1638. Cincinnati: J. Harpel, 1860.

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Gould, Philip. "Catharine Sedgwick’s ‘Recital’ of the Pequot War." American Literature 66 (1994): 641-62.

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Graham, Isabella. Lion Gardiner: A Tale of the Pequot War. New Haven: Tuttle, Moorehouse and Taylor, 1918.

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Hauptman, Laurence M 2. "John Underhill: A Psychological Portrait of an Indian Fighter, 1597-1672." The Hudson Valley Regional Review 9 (September 1992): 101-11.

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Haynes, William. Connecticut’s Own Major: A Profile of John Mason (1600-1672). Stonington, CT: Pequot Press, 1956.

READING ROOM: Local History F 97 .M38 H39 1956

Hemingway, Albert. "Massacre on the Mystic." Wild West 3 (April 1991): 26-32.

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Hirsch, Adam J. "The Collision of Military Cultures in Seventeenth-Century New England." Journal of American History 74 (1988): 1187-212.

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Holahan, David. "Monument to a Butcher." Northeast Journal. No date or page.

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Hollister, G.H. "Connecticut a Wilderness: The Pequot War and its Causes." In The History of Connecticut from the First Settlement of the Colony to the Adoption of the Present Constitution. Volume I. New Haven: Durrie and Peck, 1855.

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________. "Prosecution of the Pequot War." In The History of Connecticut from the First Settlement of the Colony to the Adoption of the Present Constitution. Volume I. New Haven: Durrie and Peck, 1855.

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Hosmer, James Kendall, ed. Winthrop's Journal: History of New England: 1630-1649. 1908. Reprint. New York: Barnes and Noble, 1946.

READING ROOM: Early Accounts PS 878 .A39 1946

Hubbard, William. A Narrative of the Troubles with the Indians in New-England, from the First Planting Thereof in the year 1607. To this Present Year 1677. But Chiefly of the Late Troubles in the Two Last Years, 1675 and 1676. To Which is Added a Discourse About the Warre with the Pequods in the Year 1637. Boston: John Foster, 1677. (Photocopy.)

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Johnson, Alexander. "The Pequot War." In Connecticut: A Study of a Commonwealth Democracy. Cambridge, MA: The Riverside Press, 1898.

ARCHIVES & SPECIAL COLLECTIONS: Local History Rare F 94 .J72 1898

Karr, Ronald Dale. "'Why Should You be so Furious?': The Violence of the Pequot War." The Journal of American History 85 (1998): 876-909.

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Katz, Steven T 1. "The Pequot War Reconsidered." New England Quarterly 64 (1991): 206-224.

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________ 2. "Pequots and the Question of Genocide: A Reply to Michael Freeman." New England Quarterly 68 (1995): 641-9.

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LaFantasie, Glenn W., ed. The Correspondence of Roger Williams. Volume I, 1629-1653: Volume II, 1654-1682. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1988.

READING ROOM: Early Accounts F 82 .W64 1988

Malone, Patrick M. "Changing Military Technology Among the Indians of Southern New England, 1600-1677." American Quarterly 25 (1973): 48-63.

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________. The Skulking Way of War: Technology and Tactics among the New England Indians. Lanham, MD: Madison Books, 1991.

READING ROOM: Local History E 78 .N5 M35 1991

Mason, John. A Brief History of the Pequot War. Especially of the Memorable Taking of their Fort at Mistick Connecticut in 1637. 1736. Reprint: Books for Libraries Press, 1966.

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Mason, Louis Bond. The Life and Times of Major John Mason of Connecticut, 1600-1672. New York: Putnam, 1935.

READING ROOM: Pequot F 97 .M38 M47 1935

McBride, Kevin. "The Legacy of Robin Cassacinamon: Mashantucket Pequot Leadership in the Historic Period." In Northeastern Indian Lives 1632-1816. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1996.

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Means, Carroll Alton. "Mohegan-Pequot Relationships, as Indicated by the Events Leading to the Pequot Massacre of 1637 and Subsequent Claims in the Mohegan Land Controversy." Bulletin of the Archeological Society of Connecticut 21 (1947): 26-34.

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Mix, Irene H., ed. Connecticut's Activities in the Wars of This Country: A Summary. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1932.

READING ROOM: Local History F 94 .C67 1932

Monjuia, Anna R. "The Pequot War Reexamined." American Indian Culture and Research Journal 1 (1975): 13-21.

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Morison, Samuel Eliot, ed. Of Plymouth Plantation, 1620-1647, by William Bradford, Sometime Governor Thereof. New York: Knopf, 1952.

READING ROOM: Local History F 68 .B8073 1952

Norwich Free Academy, History Department. “Case Study: The Pequot War 1636-1638.” Unpublished Manuscript, 1996.

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Oberg, Michael Leroy. Uncas: First of the Mohegans. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2003.

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Orr, Charles, ed. History of the Pequot War: The Contemporary Accounts of Mason, Underhill, Vincent and Gardiner. Cleveland: The Helman-Taylor Co., 1897.

STACKS: PEQRARE E 83.63 .H57 1897

"The Pequot Massacre of Southport, Connecticut, July 13, 1637." American Monthly Magazine 23 (1903): 203.

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Perrotta, Guy & Charles Clemmons. Mystic Voices:The Story of the Pequot War. New York: Cinema Guild, 2005.

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Perry, Dennis R. Autobiographical Structures in Seventeenth-Century Puritan Histories. Madison: University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1986. (Thesis)

READING ROOM: Pequot BX 9353 .P462 1986

"Reading Mason's Biblical Allusions."

<http://bc.barnard.columbia.edu/~rmccaugh/earlyAC/masonbi.html> accessed February 5, 2008

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Seelye, John. "By Way of Newton: How Thomas Hooker Crossed his Rubicon and Started the Pequot War: A Hudibrastic Interlude." In Prophetic Waters. New York: Oxford University Press, 1977.

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Shelley, Henry C. John Underhill: Captain of New England and New Netherland. New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1932.

READING ROOM: Pequot F 122 .U68 1932

Shepard, James. Connecticut Soldiers of the Pequot War of 1637. Meriden, CT: Journal Publishing Co., 1913.

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Silberman, Neil Asher 2. "The Pequot Massacres." MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History 1 (Spring 1989): 74-81.

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Sylvester, Herbert Milton." The Pequod War." In Indian Wars of New England. 1910. Reprint, New York: Arno Press, Inc., 1979.

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Thistlethwaite, Frank. "Captain Mason and the Mystic Fort Fight 1637." In Dorset Pilgrims: the Story of West Country Pilgrims who went to New England in the 17th Century. London: Barrie and Jenkins, 1989.

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"Treaty of Hartford, 21 September 1638." In New England Frontier: Puritans and Indians, 1620-1775. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1995.

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Trumbull, Benjamin. "Chapter V: The War with the Pequots,..." In A Complete History of Connecticut, Civil and Ecclesiastical, from the Emigration of the First Planters, from England, in the Year 1630, to the Year 1764; and to the Close of the Indian Wars. 1818. Reprint, New York: Arno Press, 1972.

READING ROOM: Local History F 97 .T8 1972

Underhill, John. Newes from America; or, a New and Experimentall Discoverie of New England; Containing, a True Relation of their War-like Proceedings there Two Years Last Past, with a Figure of the Indian Fort, or Palizado.1638. Reprint, New York: De Capo Press, 1971.

READING ROOM: Pequot E 83.63 .U53 1971

Vaughan, Alden T. "Pequots and Puritans: The Causes of the War of 1637." The William and Mary Quarterly 21 (1964): 256-69.

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Vincent, Philip. "History of the Pequot War." Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society Series 3 Volume 6 (1837): 29-43.

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________. A True Relation of the Late Battell Fought in New England, Between the English, and the Salvages: With the Present State of Things There.1637. Reprint, Norwood, NJ: Walter J. Johnson, Inc., 1974.

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Warren, James. "Total War Comes to the New World." MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History 11 (Autumn 1998): 28-39.

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Zawodniak, Brian. "The Pequot War in Connecticut." In Connecticut in King Philip's War. Hartford, CT: Trinity College, 1993. (Thesis)

READING ROOM: Pequot E 83.67 .Z39 1993

Revised January, 2007 by the staff of the Mashantucket Pequot Museum & Research Center, Information Resources Department.