The near annihilation of a powerful and prosperous Native American tribe on 26 May 1637.
It’s the early 1630’s and we’re smack bang in the middle of the great Puritan migration to the United States. The Puritans are English Protestants who are hell-bent (or heaven-bent?) on purifying the Church of England of Roman Catholic practices. It’s simply not pure enough for them. So they leave the motherland and sail west across the Atlantic seeking religious freedom.
