Images Dated 14th December 2018

The Gorton Party Attacked at Shawomet

The Gorton party attacked at Shawomet; a line of soldiers from Massachusetts fire towards a block-house, at Shawomet, in order to capture and bring Samuel Gorton to court in Boston. A group of men in the foreground take more weapons out of a box. Gorton and his religious followers had had a complaint filed against them to the Massachusetts authority, by two minor Sachems who accused Gorton of unjust dealing in purchasing land from them. He refused the summons, was arrested and brought to Boston, where the charges against him were for his extreme religious view and conduct, not land misdealing. Date: 1643

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Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers

A group of men and women on a beach huddle around a fire from the cold, as more arrive from the Mayflower ship anchored in the bay, having waded up to the beach. These were the Pilgrim Fathers, colonizers who would found Plymouth Colony and the second English settlement in North America after Jamestown. Date: 1620

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Fortified Onondaga Village

A walled and fortified village of the Onondaga people, part of the Iroquois Confederacy, is attacked by Samuel de Champlain and Huron soldiers. Champlain and his men attack from the left with guns, but are halted by the river that surrounds the village on both sides. Onondaga soldiers fire arrows back, as another one on a middle bank stokes a fire to create a smokescreen. Date: 1607

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