Massachuset warriors attack a French ship in Boston Harbor.

(ca.) The French had been engaged in trading for beaver pelts with the Native Americans, and their crippled ship subsequently drifts to today’s Peddocks Island. Most of those on board are killed and the rest taken as slaves. Thomas Morton later writes that one of the survivors subsequently learns the native language and tells the Massachuset, “God would be angry with them [and] in his displeasure destroy them.” But the Massachuset mock the Frenchman and boast, “They were so many that God could not kill them.”