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THE RED KING’S REBELLION ALSO BY RUSSELL BOURNE The View from Front Street: Travels through New England's Historic Fishing Communities (1989) THE RED KING’S REBELLION Racial Politics in New England 1675-1678 Russell Bourne Atheneum NEW YORK 1990 Copyright © 1990 by Russell Bourne All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the Publisher. Atheneum Macmillan Publishing Company 866 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10022 Collier Macmillan Canada, Inc. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Bourne, Russell. The Red King’s rebellion : racial politics in New England, 1675-1678 I by Russell Bourne. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 0-689*12000*1 i. King Philip’s War, 1675-1676. 2. Wampanoag Indians— Wars. 3. Mashpee Indians—Wars. 4. Indians of North America—New England—Wars—1600-1750. 5. Indians of North America—New England—Government relations— To 1789. 6. New England—History—Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. I. Title. E83.67.B74 1990 973'.2'4—dc2o 89*17581 CIP Macmillan books are available at special discounts for bulk purchases for sales promotions, premiums, fund-raising, or educational use. For details, contact: Special Sales Director Macmillan Publishing Company 866 Third Avenue New York, NY 10022 10 987654321 Printed in the United States of America to Mimi Contents Illustrations ix Preface xi I The Perceived Prince Philip of Pokanoket i 2 The Battle That Shaped New England’s Mind The Pequot War of 1637 41 3 “Until I Have No Country” King Philip’s War in Southern New England 85 4 Frontier Rebels and the Narragansett Gamble The War in Western New England and Rhode Island 125 § Victory’s Trail to Defeat The Bitter Death of King Philip 163 6 Dawnlanders and Down Easters The Continuation of War Along the Coast 207 Acknowledgments 247 Bibliography 253 Index 261 Illustrations On pages 14 through 17 Maps of certain New England Indian tribes, southern and northern, circa 1620. Reprinted with permission of University of New England Press from Indian New England Before the Mayflower, by Howard S. Russell, copyright 1980. Maps of recorded Indian trails and villages, southern and northern, circa 1620. Reprinted with permission of University of New England Press from Indian New England Before the Mayflower, by Howard S. Russell, copyright 1980. Between pages 146 and 147 Engraving, Philip, King of Mount Hope, by Paul Revere. Courtesy of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Oil portrait of King Philip by Thomas Hart Benton. Courtesy of Saint Joseph College, West Hartford, Connecticut, The Reverend Andrew J. Kelly Collection. Photograph by Joseph Szaszfai. Woodcut Portrait of Philip from A Pictorial History of America, Good­ rich, 1846. Courtesy of the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology at Brown University. Oil portrait of King Philip, artist unknown. Courtesy of the Haffen­ reffer Museum of Anthropology at Brown University. Oil portrait of Ninigret II by Charles Osgood, copies from the original by an unknown contemporary artist, about 1861. Courtesy of the Massachusetts Historical Society. “Princess Ninigret’s Haircomb and Bracelet” and “King Philip’s Belt.” Courtesy of the Rhode Island Historical Society. John Underhill’s diagram of Fort Mystic assault, 1637. Courtesy of The Library Company of Philadelphia. x • Illustrations Oil portrait of Major Thomas Savage, attributed to Thomas Smith. Courtesy of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Indian Assault on Ayres’ Inn, August 4, 1675. Originally published in G. M. Bodge’s Soldiers in King Philip’s War, 1906. Courtesy of the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology at Brown University. Grandfontaine’s 1671 map of Pentagouet and northern New England. Courtesy of the Public Archives of Canada, National Map Collec­ tion, and the Bibliothèque Nationale, Département des Cartes et Plans, Paris. William Hubbard’s map of King Philip’s War sites. Courtesy of the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University. Map of New England, 1675. Reprinted with permission of Charles Scribner’s Sons, an imprint of Macmillan Publishing Company, from Atlas of American History, edited by James Truslow Adams and R. V. Coleman. Copyright 1943 by Charles Scribner’s Sons, renewed 1977. Inset engraving by A. B. Durand after a drawing by James Eastbum of “King Philip’s Seat,” courtesy of the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthro­ pology at Brown University.

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