Category: History - Other
“Warren! where first beside the cradled nation, The old chief stood, we love thy storied past, ‘Sowams is pleasant for a habitation’―― ’Twas thy first history――may it be thy last.” ――HEZEKIAH BUTTERWORTH.
During the white men’s stay at Sowams many of Massasoit’s friends and allies came to visit him, “some by their report from a place not less than a hundred miles.” To all comers...
3. Part 3In 1675, John Sassamon, a Christian Indian employed as a sort of private secretary by Philip, warned the Plymouth government that his master was plotting against it. Philip disc...
1. Part 1“Warren! where first beside the cradled nation, The old chief stood, we love thy storied past, ‘Sowams is pleasant for a habitation’―― ’Twas thy first history――may it be thy las...
4. Part 4Timothy Brooks resided at different periods, at Woburn, Bedford and Swansea, Mass. During King Philip’s war, his family were protected at “Garrison No. 10” at Bedford, which sto...