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appalachiablue

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2. Northernmost Bermuda Islanders Celebrate Native American Connection

Reply to bucolic_frolic (Original post)

Fri Mar 31, 2023, 08:28 AM

Mar 2023

In 1637, Bernhard writes, Massachusetts sent at least 80 Pequot War captives to Bermuda. Many were purchased by St. David’s colonists, and even more Native prisoners were sent to Bermuda at the end of King Philip’s War in the 1670s.

“As the years passed, these and other Indians on St. David’s formed families, sometimes mixing races, but still preserving stories of their ancient Indian origins, if not their tribal cultures, to pass down through generations into the 20th century,” Bernhard wrote.
https://www.voanews.com/a/usa_northernmost-bermuda-islanders-celebrate-native-american-connection/6201548.html

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On this day, March 31, 1676 Zoeth "Zoar" Howland died, a casualty of King Philip's War [View all] bucolic_frolic Mar 2023 OP

I read obsessively about this period, and I had not heard of Zoeth before. Scrivener7 Mar 2023 #1

Northernmost Bermuda Islanders Celebrate Native American Connection appalachiablue Mar 2023 #2

That's amazing. We were educated about so little. But they did tell us bucolic_frolic Mar 2023 #3

Interesting! Tom Kitten Apr 2023 #4

so 14 generations ago bucolic_frolic Apr 2023 #5