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Years Image Event Description Keywords
1662   The Wampanoag sachem Wamsutta dies mysteriously. Wamsutta, also known as Alexander, was Massasoit's oldest son and Metacom (or Philip's) brother. Indian, Philip
1675   King Philip's War Read a modernized version of Philip's account of Indian grievances originally contained in a narrative by the Rhode Island Quaker, John Easton Indians, Philip
1677   Surviving Indians confined to Praying Towns   Indian, Philip
1683   Mary Rowlandson's narrative The birth of the "captivity narrative" as a American genre Philip, women
1689   Abenaki kill Richard Waldron in Dover, NH The attack on Waldon's garrison was in part retaliation for a double cross at the end of King Philip's War. Indian, Philip, NH
1704   Deerfield Massacre A winter raid resulted in the deaths or captivities of three-fifths of the town's inhabitants. The attacking force included men from Odanak and Schaghiticoke, where many New England refugees had gathered after King Philip's War. Indians, French, frontier, captivity" Philip
1772   Paul Revere engraves a "portrait" of King Philip   Indian, Philip
1773   Mary Rowlandson's narrative reprinted   women, Philip" Philip
1814   Washington Irving, "Philip of Pokanoket" An early, sympthetic account of King Philip Indian, Philip
1827   James Fenimore Cooper, "The Wept of Wish-ton-Wish" A little-known novel about King Philip's War Indian, Philip
1829   First performance of "Metamora"   Indian, Philip
1836   William Apess. Eulogy on King Philip   Indian, Philip
1842 Eleanor Field gives the Rhode Island Historical Society a basket purportedly made during King Philip's War.    
1860   Matthew Brady photographs Edwin Forrest as "Metamora"   Indian, Philip

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