The past couple years I've been reading about King Philip's War (1675-1676), a terrible war between Native tribes and English settlers. This surprise attack on English colonists led by Thomas Wheeler and Captain Edward Hutchinson happened 348 years ago today. I discovered that my 7th-great uncle Edward Colburn (through Dad's maternal grandma) was one of the colonists killed in the ambush. As this article says, Hutchinson might have realized he and the other colonists were in a vulnerable position, but you know how hindsight works. Members of the Nipmuc tribe subsequently burned buildings in nearby Brookfield, MA. Many English and Native villages were partially or completely destroyed in the conflict. Hutchinson was the son of Puritan reformer Anne Hutchinson, who had been killed by another Native tribe 33 years before, almost to the day.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheeler%27s_Surprise
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