INDIAN WARS OF NEW ENGLAND

Bagnall & Peverly Murders


by Herbert Milton Sylvester - Indians of North America - 1910 - Page 76


Bagnall was an acquaintance of Thomas Morton's. It was on 'Richmond Island' with Bagnall where Morton spent time after his difficulty with the purists of Plymouth.

Bagnall was murdered by the savages in Oct 1631, and his trading-house burned. This was the first time this sort of incident had taken place in the settlements.

Bagnall is considered to be a man of dark visage who robbed the Indians in his dealing with them. He sold them liquor and got them drunk and then paid them whatever he wanted to.

Squidrayset was the ringleader in this murder. He ahd much knowledge of the English kidnappings. Bagnall's character was so notorious, that the murder was not given much importance.



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