Pequot War begins.

(Aug.) Meeting in Boston, the magistrates votes to “revenge the blood” of the recent killings by Native Americans of Capts. John Oldham and John Stone – even though both had been banished for plotting the “ruin and utter subversion.” John Endicott and John Underhill, accompanied by Massachuset sachem Cutshamekin, subsequently lead an expedition from Boston to Block Island, where one Native American is killed. Colonial forces, joined by Mohegan and Narragansett Native Americans, subsequently all but wipe out the Pequot tribe, and the war ends in 1638.*