Mystic New London Connecticut United States

...Mason sails east with a force up to about four hundred fighting men, and on May 26, 1637, attacks the village of Misistuck (present-day Mystic) by surprise.

Mason had visited and recruited the Narragansett, who join him with several hundred warriors.

Several allied Niantic warriors have also joined Mason's group.

The Pequot sachem Sassacus, believing that the English had returned to Boston, had taken some one hundred and fifty of his warriors to make another raid on Hartford, so the inhabitants remaining are largely Pequot women and children, and older men.

Mason later estimated that "six or seven Hundred" Pequot were there when his forces assaulted the palisade.

He orders that the enclosure be set on fire, and insists that any Pequot attempting to escape the flames should be killed.

Justifying his conduct later, Mason will declare that the attack against the Pequot was the act of a God who "laughed his Enemies and the Enemies of his People to scorn making [the Pequot] as a fiery Oven" ..."Thus did the Lord judge among the Heathen, filling [Mystic] with dead Bodies."

The Narragansett and Mohegan warriors with Mason and Underhill's colonial militia are horrified by the actions and "manner of the Englishmen's fight...because it is too furious, and slays too many men."

The Narragansett leave he warfare and returned home.

Believing the mission accomplished, Mason sets out for home.

His militia, becoming temporarily lost, narrowly misses returning Pequot warriors.

After seeing the destruction of Mystic, they give chase to the English forces, but to little avail.