Publiboda

	Sector	Real Estate
	Country	US
	State	Connecticut
	Address	Ram Point Road, 06355, Mystic, Connecticut, US
	Phone	(860) 536-1677
	Web	http://www.masonsisland.com

IT WAS with this quotation that Major John Mason, Indian fighter and settler, concluded the story of his life in the New ‘World. A young Puritan army officer, arriving in Boston shortly before the time of Cromwell in England, he broke the power of the Pequot inhabitants of Connecticut, and in his capacity of military leader helped settle several towns, particularly Windsor, Saybrook and Norwich, where he (died in 1671. His reputation as a man of strong character, marked ability and hot temper survives him to this day. The mutual trust and friendship between himself and the Mohegan Indians was continued by his family for many generations. It is a familiar story how Captain, later Major, Mason came into this section. At the head of a small band of colonists from the English settlements on the Connecticut River, he sailed down the river and eastward along the coast to Narragansett Bay. Accompanied by the Narragansetts and a lesser number of loyal Mohegans, he marched overland and attacked and destroyed the Pequots at their fort just above what is now Mystic. By reason of this conquest in 1637. the Pequot country was later claimed both by Connecticut and by Massachusetts, from whence the Connecticut River settlers had come.

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