Pequots

Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 8: Peasant to Eoumelia, p. 41

Pequots, or PEQUODS, a tribe of American Indians, a branch of the Mohicans, were warlike and powerful in the country round the Thames River when Connecticut was first settled, and made treaties with the Dutch and English. Hostilities, however, broke out in 1637, and the tribe was cut to pieces and scattered; yet a few descendants may be found at Green Bay, Wisconsin.

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