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King Philip's War : Civil War in New England, 1675-1676 Native Americans of the Northeast
author
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Drake, James David.
publisher
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University of Massachusetts Press
isbn10 | asin
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1558492232
print isbn13
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9781558492233
ebook isbn13
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9780585320014
language
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English
subject
King Philip's War, 1675-1676.
publication date
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1999
lcc
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E83.67.D74 1999eb
ddc
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973.2/4
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King Philip's War, 1675-1676.
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King Philip's War
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A VOLUME IN THE SERIES
Native Americans of the Northeast Culture, History, and the Contemporary
EDITED BY COLIN G. CALLOWAY AND BARRY O'CONNELL
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King Philip's War
Civil War in New England, 16751676
James D. Drake
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Copyright 1999 by The University of Massachusetts Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America LC 99-35539 ISBN 1-55849-223-2 (cloth); 224-0 (pbk.)
Designed by Dennis Anderson Set in Dante by Graphic Composition, Inc. Printed and bound by Sheridan Books
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Drake, James David, 1968 King Philip's War : civil war in New England, 16751676 / James D. Drake. p. cm. (Native Americans of the Northeast) Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index. ISBN 1-55849-223-2 (cloth : alk. paper). ISBN 1-55849-224-0 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. King Philip's War, 1675-1676. I. Title. II. Series. E83.67.D74 1999 973.2'4dc21 99-35539 CIP
British Library Cataloguing in Publication data are available.
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Contents
Introduction
1
1 Chiefs and Followers
16
2 Peace
35
3 Symbol of a Failed Strategy
57
4 Fault Lines
75
5 "Barbarous Inhumane Outrages"
109
6 Victory and Defeat
140
7 Legacies
168
Conclusion
197
Notes
203
Acknowledgments
249
Index
251
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Note on the Text
To avoid confusion, dates in this study have been rendered in the modern Gregorian calendar. The days from January 1 to March 25 have been cited as part of the new year. For example, what would have appeared as February 15, 1675/6 in a document has been changed to February 15, 1676.
Quotations for the most part follow the spelling and usage of the sources cited. Exceptions include the transliteration of "ye" and "yt" to "the" and "that." In many cases I have also changed i to j and u to v to make reading easier while maintaining the character and flavor of the original sources.
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Introduction
What many consider the deadliest war in American history began in June 1675 when some Wampanoag Indians under the leader Philip, pressured by the loss of land and political autonomy, rebelled against Plymouth Colony in New England. Philip and his followers, like many Indian groups in seventeenth-century New England, had submitted to a colony in an arrangement of mutual obligation. Philip's supporters believed that in exchange for their loyalty they could rely on Plymouth as a kind of protectorate. Events of the 1660s and 1670s, however, made it clear to the Wampanoags that their relationship with the colony had failed to protect them from English expansion. They had lost land while rival Christian Indians appeared to be gaining it. The Wampanoags felt they had to break off their political ties to Plymouth. They had to rebel.
First they attacked the southwestern Plymouth town of Swansea, killing a handful of colonists. At the time, no one foresaw that this relatively innocuous skirmish would initiate a chain of events leading all of southern New England into a full-scale war. The fault lines for such a conflict developed only over the next six months. Cultural differences, misunderstandings, the twists and turns of the war, and paranoia eventually lured most New England groupsIndian and Englishinto the contest. Although it involved both Indians and English, the opposing sides did not draw up neatly along ethnic lines. Some Indian groups even contributed more soldiers on a per capita basis than the English colonists to put down the Indian rebellion.
King Philip's War, as it came to be called, violently altered the course of New England history. For most of the fourteen-month contest, rebel
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