The Stockbridge Indians were a mixed community of Mohican, Housatonic, and Wappinger people who had sought refuge in the “praying town” of Stockbridge, Massachusetts. They made common cause with the Americans and fought alongside the colonists–as minutemen and Continental soldiers–in the hope it would protect their lands and sovereignty.
In 1778, a company of Stockbridge Indians was ambushed by British forces near Kingsbridge, NY (in what is now the Bronx). Their position is marked with a “D” on this map. The skirmish, which killed as many as 40 Indian soldiers, devastated the Stockbridge community.
