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Date	1630 - 1691

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Pequot War

Pequot War

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British Empire

British Empire

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Massachusetts

state, United States

English colonies in 17th-century North America

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John Winthrop

John Winthrop

American colonial governor

Anne Bradstreet

Anne Bradstreet

American poet

Duston, Hannah Emerson

Hannah Emerson Duston

American colonial heroine

Mary Dyer

Mary Dyer

Quaker martyr

Henry Dunster

American minister and educator

Jonathan Belcher

British colonial governor

Endecott, detail of a portrait by an unknown artist, 17th century; in the State House, Boston

John Endecott

British colonial governor

Thomas Dudley

British colonial governor

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