Final Part 9  (final) p. 17 to 18

Benjamin Church was the most active in hunting and bring-
in the Indians, and when one of Philip's men came to be-
tray his chief, he found Mr. Church at Major Sanford's
in Rhode Island with his scouting party of English and
Indians a short distance away.  Upon the news of Philip's
hiding place and the offer of the Indian to lead thither,
Mr. Church gathered as many as he could enlist in addi-
tion to his party, and, under the lead of the Indian
deserter (who acted, it is said, from motives of revenge
for his brother's death, by Philip's hand, because he
advised him to make peace with the English), the party
marched with great secrecy to Mount Hope.  Mr. Church
arranged his attack with skill, and came upon Philip's
party unguarded and asleep, and Philip springing up and
attempting to escape to the swamp nearby, was confronted
with two of Mr. Church's guards, an Englishman and an
Indian.  The Englishman's gun missed fire, but the Indian,
named "Alderman," immediately fired and shot the great
chief through the breast, so that he fell forward into
the water of the swamp, upon his face, dead.

Philip was killed August 12th, 1676.  Weetamoo's party,
the sad remnant of her tribe, had been captured on the
7th and she, trying to escape across a river, was drown-
ed and her body being found, her head was cut off and
paraded in the public streets.  In the body of the
papers, by a strange continuance of an old mistake, this
fact is accredited to Awashonks, squaw sachem of the
Sogkonates.

After Philip's death, his chief counsellor, Annawon, led
the rest of the party out of the swamp and escaped. With
his party he soon after surrendered to Mr. Church.  The
death of Philip was practically the close of the war,
though hostilities continued for some time after, and at
the eastward for a year or more longer.  At Dover Major
Richard Walderne had held command of the military inter-
ests and operations in those parts.  He was a trusted
friend of Wannalancet and the neighboring Indians.  Under
the proclamation the old chief and his people came in
without fear, as they had taken no part whatever in the
war.  There were many Indians with them, however, it was
suspected, who had been among the hostiles and now wish-
ed to come in with the Pennacooks and secure the advan-
tages of their influence in giving themselves up.  They
began to come in at Dover about the first of September,
and when, on the 6th, the companies, sent to the east-
ward under Capt. Hathorn, arrived at Dover, there were
some four hundred there, including the Pennacooks.  In
some way the immediate surrender of all these was re-
ceived, probably by Major Walderne's great influence with
them.  They were then disarmed and as the Massachusetts
officers insisted on treating them all as prisoners of
war, Major Walderne was obliged to send all, save
Wannalancet and his "relations" down to Boston to be
tried there by the Court.  The number sent was about
two hundred.

p.18
Some of the Southern Indians, having lost all except
their own lives, passed to the Eastern tribes and were
active in exciting to hostility.  The local Indians had
been hostile the previous year, committing depredations
from the Kennebec to Portsmouth.  In the summer of 1676,
it is thought that many who had been among the Indians
in the war, came to these tribes and caused much of the
trouble which ensued.  The day before Philip's death
the Indians fell upon the settlers at Falmouth and killed
or carried away some thirty-four persons and burned
their houses.  Further eastward also the settlements
were attacked.  It was upon these occasions that Capt.
Hathorn's force was sent to these parts.  They marched
on from Dover on Sept. 8th as far as Falmouth, Capt.
Hunting's Indians scouting the woods.  This expedition
was not of much avail, as the Indians easily eluded the
troops, being only war parties without the encumbrance
of women and children.

But the scope of this review of events did not contem-
plate the detailed account of affairs which have already
been related in the body of the work, of which this pam-
phlet is a brief summary, but to give a consecutive
account for the convenience of readers.

Transcribed by Janice Farnsworth      Farns10th@aol.com

bigelow@slic.com Rod Bigelow at SLIC