Proclamation: 350th Anniversary of the Sudbury Fight
PROCLAMATION
350th Anniversary of the Sudbury Fight
WHEREAS: The clash of cultures and people known as the Sudbury Fight came violently to our Town of Sudbury 350 years ago on April 21, 1676,
WHEREAS: Seventy-four English militiamen lost their lives.
WHEREAS: Approximately 120 members of a coalition of Wampanoag, Nipmuc, and Narragansett Native Americans lost their lives, as estimated by Puritan authors. No bodies were found to be counted.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED:
All of the individuals whose lives were lost in this tragic encounter are to be honored and respected.
Signed this 31st day of March in the year two thousand and twenty-six.
SELECT BOARD
Lisa V. Kouchakdjian, Chair
Janie W. Dretler, Vice-Chair
Daniel E. Carty
Radha R. Gargeya
Charles G. Russo
