The Pokanoket Massasoit Ousamequin had maintained a long-standing alliance with the colonists and Metacom (c. 1638–1676), his younger son, became the tribal chief in 1662 after his father’s death. Metacom, however, forsook his father’s alliance between the Wampanoags and the colonists after repeated violations by the latter. The colonists insisted that the 1671 peace agreement should include the surrender of Native guns; then, three Wampanoags were hanged in Plymouth Colony in 1675 for the murder of another Wampanoag, which increased tensions. Native raiding parties attacked homesteads and villages throughout Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and Maine over the next six months, and the colonial militia retaliated.

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See also:

• Igniting King Philip’s War by Yasuhide Kawashima https://archive.org/details/ignitingkingphil0000kawa/page/n5/mode/2up
• The King Philip War broke out in today’s Warren on June 20, 1675 https://sowamsheritagearea.org/wp/king-philip-war-broke-out-in-todays-warren/