What was the Sudbury Fight (1676)?

Introduction The Sudbury Fight, 21 April 1676, was a battle of King Philip’s War, fought in what is today Sudbury and Wayland, Massachusetts, when approximately five hundred Wampanoag, Nipmuc, and Narragansett Native Americans raided the frontier settlement of Sudbury in Massachusetts Bay Colony. Disparate companies of English militiamen from nearby settlements marched to the town’s… Read More