Praise to God Quotes
John Mason led a force of 90 Pilgrims and 70 Mohegan Allies quietly surrounded the Pequot village at Mystic. Then they fired their guns into the village and charged the Pequot houses, setting them on fire and killing all those who tried to escape. Over 400 Pequot were killed. The Mohegan allies were so shocked at the carnage that they shouted, “Stop! Stop! It is naught, it is naught, because it is too furious, and slays too many men.” Prior to the massacre of Mystic Village, there had been many battles and villages destroyed, but this marked the first time that entire populations of men, women and children were exterminated in the English Colonization. After Mystic village both whites and Indians participated in terrible massacres inflicted on each other. This was not the first massacre in America as the Spanish in the South and West commonly used the tactic.
