Pequot War ends when Chief Sassacus flees to the Mohawks who promptly cut off his head, whether for the Puritans or the Narragansetts is uncertain.
Religious dissident and perennial malcontent and subversive Anne Hutchinson banished from Massachusetts. Her family of 15 children, husband, and a few followers move to Rhode Island and then to Dutch-claimed territory in New York where the entire band were massacred by Indians.