Tag: Metacomet (King Philip)
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Metacomet (King Philip)
When the Pilgrims first came to New England, they found that the nearest tribe of American Indians, the Wam-pa-no’-ags of which Massasoit was chief, had been much reduced in number by a dreadful sickness. The bones of the dead lay bleaching on the ground. The next neighbors to the Wampanoags were the Narragansetts. The Narragansetts…