Onslaught—The Wessagusset Incident, presented by Christopher Daley, will take place on Feb. 15 at 2 p.m. The event will be held on Zoom, with the access link posted on our website (https://www.ashlandhistsociety.com/events/) and on our social media channels. This program is free and open to the public.

This presentation chronicles the arrival of the pilgrims at Plymouth and the beginnings of their colony, as well as the little-known arrival of “Weston’s Men,” a group that began a colony in what is now the town of Weymouth, then known as Wessagusset. The talk will examine the interaction with the natives by the two English groups and look at the factors that led to the bloodletting of 1623, and then a blow-by-blow description of the attack at Wessagusset, followed by a discussion on the far-reaching after effects.