Pequot

In 1637, colonial soldiers had surrounded a major Pequot settlement as Puritan leader John Mason “set fire to the village, which, owing to the strong wind blowing, was soon ablaze,” according to James Truslow Adams’ 1921 Pulitzer-winning “The Founding of New England”:

Adding irony to that irony, when Stefanik was a Harvard undergraduate from 2002 to 2006, she lived in the college's Winthrop House, named for John Winthrop, first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, who oversaw its public celebration of Puritans' genocidal assaults on the indigenous Pequot people.

Ministers of Christ saluted one another “in the Lord Jesus,” some of them profiting directly from selling surviving Pequot boys and girls into slavery.

To get the business started, Wilcox raised less than $5 million from friends and family, including the late Tony Hsieh, founder of Zappos, the late Arthur Samberg, founder of Pequot Capital Management and JetBlue’s Neeleman.

Didn’t the Puritans burn the village of the Pequot people?