King Philip's War Treaty Anniversary

King Philip's War was a bloody colonial conflict between the New England English and several Native tribes who had tired of English encroachment upon tribal lands in spite of earlier treaties. Wampanoag chief Massasoit had negotiated a peace treaty with the colonists at Plymouth Plantation in 1621. By 1675, his son Metacom, angered by the hanging of three Wampanoags at Plymouth, led attacks against English settlements, destroying some, including Providence, RI, Simbury, CT, and others.... English militia responded by attacking native villages, including a Narragansett fort in Rhode Island, although the Narragansetts had been trying to stay neutral. ... Some of my relatives lived in Bridgewater, MA at the time; at least one and maybe 3 participated in the fighting. ....The murder of Metacom  in August 1676 effectively ended much of the war, although a formal treaty wasn't signed until April 12, 1678. The war was the bloodiest war per capita in American history and tragically set the template for future attitudes and policies toward Native tribes: the ugly characterization of them, the sense of entitlement to their lands, broken treaties, and the erasure of their histories from later accounts of Euro-American history. Even the Declaration of Independence, with its vision of "all men are created equal," characterizes Native tribes as "the merciless Indian Savages." .... The town of Metamora, IL is named for a popular 19th-century play, a fictionalized story of Metacom that did make him a heroic, tragic figure... Here's the grave of my 7th-great-uncle who is on record as a soldier in the war:  https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/10749663/john-washburn