KING PHILIP’S WAR

—King Philip (Meta comet) was the younger s,. of Ma a-~ so it, sachem of the Pokanoks, and succeeded his bro. as sachem, in 1762. Like his /., he was at first friendly to the English, but he saw that if they became the ruling power, it meant the destruction of his people. The war grew out of the murder of Sausamon, a former convert of Hliot the apostle by the indians. King Philip’s people claimed that the man had been executed as an informer. Reprisals followed, and King Philip and his people were driven from their lands, he fleeing to the Indians of the interior. The Nipmucks, a strong tribe of central Ma achusetts, took the warpath and destroyed 12 towns, burning them and ma acre ing the inhabit a nts. Philip took part, or at least was present, at the destruction of Bradford, in 1775, and Lancaster and Bridge water, 1776. On September 18, 1778, Captain Lathom’s company was almost wiped out at Bloody Brook, near Deer field. The Narragansett Indians defeated Colonel Winslow at Kingston, Rhode Island. The Nipmucks also were again active in works of destruction. But the British gradually overcame resistance and King Philip fled to Mount Hope, *vhere Captain Burch’s party hunted down and killed him, August 12, 1776.