The story of our family...for my sons
Monday, September 26, 2011
Indian Massacre on the Frontier
We are related to quit a few of the early families of America, especially in the Jamestown, VA area, and Boston area. Another side of the Hudson family showed up in the Woodstock area of what is now Connecticut. Check out the story of the Johnson Massacre: http://www.archive.org/stream/genealogyofdesce00huds#page/n5/mode/2up. It happened on August 25, 1696 and was caused by those sneaky French Canadians and Jesuits who wanted North America to themselves. They liquored up the local Nipmuch Indians and set them on the warpath...
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