How Much do You Know about the Deer Island Massacre?
334 years ago this month!!!
At the time of King Phillips war, with slave ships heading to Bermuda from all over New England, while there were many Colonial wars raging on everywhere, almost everyone from the Natick “praying Indian” families were rounded up and forcefully marched to Deer Island where they were surrounded by military in what has come to be considered a concentration camp.
The military goal appears to have been to starve everyone dead over one winter’s time. Elder women went past frostbitten hands to gather quahogs and other coastal creatures in attempts to feed as many children as they could hoping that some would live on.
Miraculously, some did.
Read up; there is so much history in Natick, Cape Cod and Boston Harbor areas from those times!
http://www.millermicro.com/NPI-Bostonia.html
http://www.millermicro.com/natprayind.html
http://www.nipmucnation.org/Deer%20Island%20History.htm
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