Pennacook

His wife was offered the chance to go with him, but understandably declined the generous offer.

Another two of those convicted were on a diplomatic mission from the Pennacook, and had been granted safe passage by the Massachusetts court.

They'd just been stopping by Wamesit to visit family when the soldiers arrived.

The two, father and son, narrowly escaped enslavement when some bright spark on the court remembered they'd promised them safe passage.

However, as with all United States territories, English settlers weren't the first people to live on this land.

The main tribes that occupied the area of Bennington County and the Green Mountain National Forest were the Western Abenaki, the Mahican, the Pennacook, and the Algonquin.

If Benning Wentworth had bothered to check in with any of these tribes about the area he was taking over, he may have second-guessed his choice.

Because for centuries, the indigenous people who hunted and gathered within the forests surrounding Glastenbury Mountain knew that something was not quite right with the land.