War between the early English colonists of New England and the Native Americans already here was perhaps unavoidable, though it wasn’t the goal of the Pilgrims when they crossed the Atlantic. But then Mad Jack Oldham changed everything. John Oldham was an early arrival to the new colony in 1623. He, his wife and his ...
The post Mad Jack Oldham and the Start of the Pequot War appeared first on New England Historical Society.