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01.41 - Murder on the Saltwater Frontier
Season 1 · Episode 41

01.41 - Murder on the Saltwater Frontier

Colonies spring up along the Connecticut River

Pax Britannica: A History of the British Empire

May 24, 202028m 40s

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Show Notes

Communities from Massachusetts Bay establish the first settlements of the colony of Connecticut, and a drunken pirate goes too far.

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For this episode, I found the following publications particularly useful:

  • Virginia Dejohn Anderson, 'New England in the Seventeenth Century', in The Oxford History of the British Empire: Volume I: The Origins of Empire
  • Virginia Dejohn Anderson, New England's Generation: The Great Migration and the Formation of Society and Culture in the Seventeenth Century
  • Richard Middleton, Colonial America
  • Lipman, Andrew, 'Murder on the Saltwater Frontier', Early American Studies
  • Winthrop, John, A History of New England
  • Karr, Ronald Dale, "Why should you be so furious?": The Violence of the Pequot War', Journal of American History
  • Katz, Steven T., 'The Pequot War Reconsidered', The New England Quarterly

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