This booklet is reprinted from material in the Turner’s Falls, Massachusetts, newspaper, The Turners Falls Reporter. It gives an account of the May 19, 1676, attack on an Indigenous encampment at Peskeompskut (now Turners Falls.) Capt. William Turner led a group of more than 100 English soldeirs to the encampment in a surprise attack where it was estimated that between 300 and 400 Indigenous women, elderly people, and children were killed. Forty-one colonists lost their lives, including Captain Turner.
Peske-ompsk-ut; or, The Falls Fight. Turners Falls Reporter, 1875. Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, American Centuries. https://americancenturies.org/collection/l98-025/. Accessed on October 16, 2024.
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