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Pequot Plantation
The Story of an Early Colonial Settlement
by Richard Radune

(This book has local interest for the Bridport area of the UK)

I have recently published a book entitled Pequot Plantation which tells the true story of the founding of an early colonial settlement in New England during the 1600s. This is British history as much as it is American history. Moreover, it follows the lives of 10 people who emigrated from various parts of England to Massachusetts Bay Colony during the 1630's and eventually made their way to the new settlement called Pequot Plantation. All of these people plus their spouses were born in England.

In particular. John Gallop, Sr., his wife Christobel Brushett and John Gallop, Jr. would generate interest in Dorset & Somerset as they were born in the Bridport / Mosterton area. Father and son were important participants in the Pequot War of 1635/1636. In 1675. Captain John Gallop, Jr. was killed in the Great Swamp Fight during King Phillip's War. This conflict with the Indians was the blodiest war ever fought by Americans. Pequot Plantation not only relates the struggle to establish a new settlement but shows its interaction with historic events in New England as well as England's drive for world dominance.