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The Stockbridge Indians were a mixed community of Mohican, Housatonic, and Wappinger people from Stockbridge, Massachusetts. They united with American colonists in the hope it would protect their lands and sovereignty.

In 1778, a company of Stockbridge Indians were ambushed by British forces in Kingsbridge, NY. The skirmish, which killed as many as 40 Native American soldiers, devastated the Stockbridge community.

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📜: Map of Ambuscade of the Indians at Kingsbridge, August 31, 1778. catalog.archives.gov/id/102279744
📜: Memorial of the Stockbridge Indians to Congress, March 25, 1782. Records of the Continental and Confederation Congresses and the Constitutional Convention
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