At about the same time John Winthrop, Jr., led a colony to Saybrook, at the mouth of the Connecticut.

Up to this time the Dutch had seemed to have the best chance to settle the Connecticut Valley.

But the control of that region was now definitely in the hands of the English.
[Sidenote: Destruction of the Pequods, 1637.] 52.

The Pequod War, 1637 .-- The Pequod Indians were not so ready as the Dutch to admit that resistance was hopeless.

They attacked Wethersfield.