Meredith Baldwin Weddle
- Published in print:
- 2001
- Published Online:
- November 2003
- ISBN:
- 9780195131383
- eISBN:
- 9780199834839
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/019513138X.003.0009
- Subject:
- Religion, History of Christianity
In 1675, King Philip's War – a war redolent of sin and flesh – broke out in New England between English settlers and Indians. All of the antagonists in this war saw each other as sinners: the ...
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In 1675, King Philip's War – a war redolent of sin and flesh – broke out in New England between English settlers and Indians. All of the antagonists in this war saw each other as sinners: the Puritans blamed Quakers for drawing the wrath of God upon them in the form of angry Indians; the Quakers blamed Puritans for persecuting fellow Christians; the Indians felt the English had abused them in multiple ways; the English saw the Indians as Godless, and so as sinners as well. As for flesh, the physical costs of war were devastating: the Indians suffered massive losses of population, and 12 English towns were utterly destroyed. The major leaders when war erupted were King Philip of the Wampanoags, Canonchet of the Narragansetts, the Quaker Governor William Coddington of Rhode Island, Governors John Leverett of Massachusetts Bay, Josiah Winslow of Plymouth, and John Winthrop Jr. of Connecticut. Quakers dominated the Rhode Island government and sent Quaker John Easton to negotiate with Philip in a failed effort to forestall hostilities.Less
In 1675, King Philip's War – a war redolent of sin and flesh – broke out in New England between English settlers and Indians. All of the antagonists in this war saw each other as sinners: the Puritans blamed Quakers for drawing the wrath of God upon them in the form of angry Indians; the Quakers blamed Puritans for persecuting fellow Christians; the Indians felt the English had abused them in multiple ways; the English saw the Indians as Godless, and so as sinners as well. As for flesh, the physical costs of war were devastating: the Indians suffered massive losses of population, and 12 English towns were utterly destroyed. The major leaders when war erupted were King Philip of the Wampanoags, Canonchet of the Narragansetts, the Quaker Governor William Coddington of Rhode Island, Governors John Leverett of Massachusetts Bay, Josiah Winslow of Plymouth, and John Winthrop Jr. of Connecticut. Quakers dominated the Rhode Island government and sent Quaker John Easton to negotiate with Philip in a failed effort to forestall hostilities.
Linford D. Fisher
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199740048
- eISBN:
- 9780199949892
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199740048.003.0008
- Subject:
- History, American History: early to 18th Century
This chapter examines the post-Revolutionary experiences of New England Native communities that did not migrate to Brothertown. It also looks at the ways in which the process of evangelization ...
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This chapter examines the post-Revolutionary experiences of New England Native communities that did not migrate to Brothertown. It also looks at the ways in which the process of evangelization started all over again, for in the postwar years the Society for Propagating the Gospel among the Indians and Others in North America sent missionaries to several of these communities, most notably the Narragansetts. This chapter also demonstrates the ways in which Brothertown was just one of many minor migrations and movements in these postwar years. Nonetheless, Native communities still leaned upon traditional modes of living to survive and stand strong.Less
This chapter examines the post-Revolutionary experiences of New England Native communities that did not migrate to Brothertown. It also looks at the ways in which the process of evangelization started all over again, for in the postwar years the Society for Propagating the Gospel among the Indians and Others in North America sent missionaries to several of these communities, most notably the Narragansetts. This chapter also demonstrates the ways in which Brothertown was just one of many minor migrations and movements in these postwar years. Nonetheless, Native communities still leaned upon traditional modes of living to survive and stand strong.
Betty Booth Donohue
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780813037370
- eISBN:
- 9780813042336
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813037370.003.0009
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
This chapter deals with the Native subjects and political situations William Bradford and Edward Winslow encountered. Prominent among the Native persons and groups the two describe are the Nemaskets, ...
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This chapter deals with the Native subjects and political situations William Bradford and Edward Winslow encountered. Prominent among the Native persons and groups the two describe are the Nemaskets, Corbitant, Wituwamat, the Tarentins or Micmacs, Uncas, Sassacus, the Narragansetts, the Pequots, and the Pequot massacre. The chapter furthermore delineates the actions of John Winthrop, William Brewster, John Oldham, and John Stone and events leading up to King Philip's War. Included also are comments concerning the Native words Bradford chose to set legal land descriptions and official boundaries. The author describes how that usage decision impacted subsequent American letters.Less
This chapter deals with the Native subjects and political situations William Bradford and Edward Winslow encountered. Prominent among the Native persons and groups the two describe are the Nemaskets, Corbitant, Wituwamat, the Tarentins or Micmacs, Uncas, Sassacus, the Narragansetts, the Pequots, and the Pequot massacre. The chapter furthermore delineates the actions of John Winthrop, William Brewster, John Oldham, and John Stone and events leading up to King Philip's War. Included also are comments concerning the Native words Bradford chose to set legal land descriptions and official boundaries. The author describes how that usage decision impacted subsequent American letters.
Jenny Hale Pulsipher
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780300214932
- eISBN:
- 9780300235548
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300214932.003.0007
- Subject:
- History, Indian History
This chapter recounts the period when John Wompas left Massachusetts at a time of personal trouble as well as a time of trouble for the colony. Massachusetts had been under a cloud of royal ...
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This chapter recounts the period when John Wompas left Massachusetts at a time of personal trouble as well as a time of trouble for the colony. Massachusetts had been under a cloud of royal disapproval, since the king sent royal commissioners to investigate the colony's loyalty and adherence to English law in 1664. Within a year of John's departure from Massachusetts, a more immediate crisis struck the region: a devastating war broke out between the English colonists and their Indian neighbors, the Wampanoags and Narragansetts, as well as many of Wompas's Nipmuc kin. By the time he returned to Massachusetts in 1677, he would find a way to use both the war and the colony's political disgrace to his own advantage.Less
This chapter recounts the period when John Wompas left Massachusetts at a time of personal trouble as well as a time of trouble for the colony. Massachusetts had been under a cloud of royal disapproval, since the king sent royal commissioners to investigate the colony's loyalty and adherence to English law in 1664. Within a year of John's departure from Massachusetts, a more immediate crisis struck the region: a devastating war broke out between the English colonists and their Indian neighbors, the Wampanoags and Narragansetts, as well as many of Wompas's Nipmuc kin. By the time he returned to Massachusetts in 1677, he would find a way to use both the war and the colony's political disgrace to his own advantage.