16 examples of pequots in sentences

In this group were the Mohegans, Pequots, and Narragansetts of New England; the Delawares; the Powhatans of Virginia; the Shawnees of the Ohio valley, and many others living around the Great Lakes.

In 1636 the Pequots, who dwelt along the Thames River in Connecticut, made war on the settlers in the Connecticut River valley towns.

They found the Pequots within a circular stockade near the present town of Stonington, where of 400 warriors all save five were killed.

Meanwhile the war against the Pequots in 1637 yielded a number of captives, whereupon the squaws and girls were distributed in the towns of Massachusetts and Connecticut, and a parcel of the boys was shipped off to the tropics in the Salem ship Desire.

Furthermore, Captain Underhill, hero of the Pequot War, boasted to the saints of having received his assurance of salvation "while enjoying a pipe of that good creature, tobacco," "since when he had never doubted it, though he should fall into sin."

NYMAN, JENNIE LYNN. Union-management cooperation in the "stretch out" labor extension at the Pequot Mills.

SEE NYMAN, RICHMOND C. NYMAN, RICHMOND C. Union-management cooperation in the "stretch out" labor extension at the Pequot Mills, by Richmond C. Nyman & Elliott Dunlap Smith.

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NYMAN, JENNIE LYNN. Union-management cooperation in the "stretch out" labor extension at the Pequot Mills.

SEE NYMAN, RICHMOND C. NYMAN, RICHMOND C. Union-management cooperation in the "stretch out" labor extension at the Pequot Mills, by Richmond C. Nyman & Elliott Dunlap Smith.

Union-management cooperation in the "stretch out" labor extension at the Pequot Mills.

And then with a closing volley of every text winch figures under the head of "Snow" in the Concordance, the discourse comes to an end; and every liberated urchin goes home with his head full of devout fancies of building a snow-fort, after sunset, from which to propel consecrated missiles against imaginary or traditional Pequots.

When I took my aunt and sister to the Pequot hotel, the night before the Yale-Harvard boat race, I found a gang of Harvard boys there.

Desborough was a landowner in Hartford, having received a grant of fifty acres for his services in the Pequot war.

And again at the Pequot House at New London on the eve of a varsity boat-race, when a Yale crowd shook a big wad of money and taunts at Bob until with a yell he left his usually well-leaded feet and frightened me, whose allowance was dollars to Bob's cents, at the sum total of the bet-cards he signed before he cleared the room of Yale money and came to with a white face streaming with cold perspiration.

At this time, and when this is the condition and situation of the Indians, comes this intruder, this disturber, this riotous and mischief-making Indian, from the Pequot tribe, in Connecticut.

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