01.41 - Murder on the Saltwater Frontier

Communities from Massachusetts Bay establish the first settlements of the colony of Connecticut, and a drunken pirate goes too far.

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For this episode, I found the following publications particularly useful:

• Virginia Dejohn Anderson, 'New England in the Seventeenth Century', in The Oxford History of the British Empire: Volume I: The Origins of Empire
• Virginia Dejohn Anderson, New England's Generation: The Great Migration and the Formation of Society and Culture in the Seventeenth Century
• Richard Middleton, Colonial America
• Lipman, Andrew, 'Murder on the Saltwater Frontier', Early American Studies
• Winthrop, John, A History of New England
• Karr, Ronald Dale, "Why should you be so furious?": The Violence of the Pequot War', Journal of American History
• Katz, Steven T., 'The Pequot War Reconsidered', The New England Quarterly

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