Newes from America

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Newes from America is a 1638 pamphlet by English soldier John Underhill that provides one of the earliest printed accounts of the Pequot War in New England.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf historical document
pamphlet
primary source
author John Underhill
authorCitizenship English
authorName John Underhill
authorOccupation soldier
countryOfOrigin England
describesEvent Pequot War
describesPlace Connecticut
New England
documentType narrative report
genre military account
war narrative
hasFormat printed pamphlet
hasTitleVariant Newes from America, or, A New and Experimental Discovery of New England
historicalSignificance early English-language description of Native–English conflict in New England
one of the earliest printed accounts of the Pequot War
language English
mainSubject New England colonial warfare
Pequot War
narrativeVoice first-person account
originalMedium print
originalPublicationCentury 17th century
perspective English colonial soldier
providesAccountOf English colonial military campaigns against the Pequot
massacre at Mystic
publicationYear 1638
relatedEthnicGroup English colonists
Mohegan
Narragansett
Pequot people
surface form: Pequot
relatedEvent English colonization of New England
relatedField colonial studies
early American history
military history
timePeriodDescribed 1630s
usedAsSourceIn scholarship on the Pequot War
studies of English–Native American relations

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John Underhill notableWork Newes from America