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An "On this Day" accounting of King Philip's War focusing on education and engagement. Presented by the Bristol Historical & Preservation Society in partnership with the Sowams Heritage Area Project.
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"The best way to get an approximation [of the truth] is to read multiple accounts and piece them together.” (opens the original)
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Between June 1675 and August 1676, the fourteen months of the conflict now colloquially known as King Philip’s War, an estimated 10% of English settlers and 50% or more of the Indigenous population of Southern New England were killed. (1) As depicted in the many posts between June 2025 and August 2026 on this account, these fourteen months remain one of the bloodiest periods of American history. With thousands taken captive or killed and more than half of the English colonial settlements destroy
The Death of Metacom (opens the original)
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The Mount Hope Lands, now known as Bristol, Rhode Island, had been the ancestral homelands of the Pokanoket for thousands of years. On August 12, 1676, they became the site of Metacom’s death.Nearly fourteen months after the start of King Philip’s War (also known as Metacom’s Resistance), Captain Benjamin Church and his combined forces of Englishmen and Indigenous allies caught up with and attacked Metacom and the Pokanoket at Mount Hope. Church and his forces were guided by John Alderman, a “Ch
Broken Peace in Maine (opens the original)
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In what is now modern Maine, an attack was launched on the Brackett settlement, located on Casco Neck (once known as “Deering Oaks” in Falmouth, ,now Portland, ME). What had been a stretch of peace was broken by the killing of a cow belonging to Captain Anthony Brackett on August 9. This event led to a streak of attacks, which began on August 11. A reported six Indigenous men operating under the leadership of an Indigenous man named Simon, who was from the Piscataqua region, attacked the farm be
The Death of Totoson (opens the original)
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The sachem Totoson was a strong supporter of Metacom and a premier leader of warriors throughout King Philip’s War. Having led several raids and attacks against the English, including at “Old Dartmouth,” Totoson was considered a fierce enemy of the English, particularly in that his raids often resulted in the death of several English at a time. In early August 1676, on or around the 7th, Captain Benjamin Church and his men came across the encampment of Totoson and launched an attack in the early
The Death of Weetamoo (opens the original)
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Multiple events occurred on August 6, 1676.In modern Norton, MA, an encounter occurred at Lockety Neck, located between the Rumford and Coweset (or Wading) Rivers. Reportedly using information given by an Indigenous man seeking leniency, Englishmen converged on the site and defeated a group of Indigenous people, taking an unspecified number captive. (1)On this same day, a number of Englishmen from Taunton encountered a number of Indigenous people in Swansea and took more than two dozen captive.A
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