EARLY EPISODE: King Philip's War Part 1: That Isn't How Dead Bodies Work

Learned about this... all my life. 13th generation descendant of Captain George Denison, leader of a group of Pequots and other natives during King Phillip's War. He lived, was given land, and ended his life as a terrible neighbor. The court cases are often hilarious. Another ancestor was Thomas Stanton, a negotiator of the Treaty of Hartford of 1637. As a historian, researching them is fun.

I hadn’t heard of King Philip’s War until I started working on my family genealogy a few years ago. I discovered that one of my 10th great grandfathers was Richard Waldron, and one of my 9th great grandfathers was Charles Frost. They were co-leaders in a military raid on a native village–I’ll quote from Waldron’s Wikipedia page: “At the end of King Philip's War, a number of Indians fleeing from the Massachusetts Bay Colony militia took refuge with the Abenaki tribe living around Dover. The Massachusetts militia ordered Waldron to attack these natives and turn any refugee combatants over to them. Waldron believed he could capture the natives without a pitched battle by resorting to subterfuge and so, on 7 September 1676, he invited the natives—about 400 in total, half local and half refugees—to participate in a mock battle against the militia. After the natives had fired their guns, Waldron, aided by Charles Frost, took them prisoner. Waldron then sent both the refugee combatants and those locals who violently objected to this forced breach of hospitality to Boston, where seven or eight leaders were convicted of insurrection and executed, including Monoco, Muttawmp, Matoonas, and Old Jethro (Tantamous) to whom Waldron may have promised amnesty in negotiations with his son Peter Jethro. The rest of the captives were sold into slavery in "foreign parts", mostly Barbados. The local Indians were released, but never forgave Waldron for the deception, which violated all the rules of honor and hospitality valued by both sides.” They were both targeted—Waldron was murdered in a raid on Dover, NH in 1689 and Frost was ambushed riding home from church in 1697. (I just recently discovered that another victim of Frost’s ambush, a neighbor named Phebe Heard, was a 10th great grandaunt on my great-grandmother’s other side than the Frost line.)

Kathy A

I think there were two whole sentences devoted to King Phillip's War in my middle school history text book. That's the same number of sentences that were devoted to the 1921 "Tulsa Race Riots" in my high school level Oklahoma History textbook.

Thomas Thompson

I grew up in Plymouth County. I went to public school in Massachusetts. We did not learn about this war in school beyond maybe a small side paragraph/caption type of thing in a very outdated history book. I learned about the pilgrims and "the first Thanksgiving" about one million times though. I went to a thing called "Plimoth Plantation" for field trips a lot too. It was basically a reenactment of the settlement. They didn't talk about all the parasites. I also have a very stupid accent.

As resident of the Dawn Land I'm so stoked to see this as the new series. This war is so prophetic of US Native relations.

In Bruges is my favorite movie so I now have confirmation that Joe and Liam are men of class

Raehan Durlabhji

Calvinball. Perfect comparison bravo Joe

SpacemanSpiffLives

SE PA, never heard of King Philips war before reading about 17th General Crisis, seemed kinda genocidey

Daniel

Ooof, "remember this for later" really hits different when you know what's coming up

Michael Gruar (Chappington)

We already knew Liam is a sassy bitch, the sticker just confirms it

Boils

Still a more acceptable sort of weeb no matter what you think of the Dutch.

Matt

What is even happening

A Weeb for the Netherlands is a Cloghead surely!

Calum Ferguson