King Philip's War & the Colonial Contact Period in Warren, RI

References

Baker, Virginia (1904) Massasoit's Town: Sowams in Pokanoket, Its History, Legends and Traditions. Warren, RI: Published by the author.

Church, Colonel Benjamin (1975) Diary of King Philip's War: 1675-1676. Little Compton, RI: Lockwood Publishing.

Cronon, William (1983) Changes in the Land: Indians, colonists, and the ecology of New England. New York: Hill and Wang.

Fessenden, G.M. (1845) The History of Warren, R.I., from the Earliest Times, with Particular Notices of Massasoit and His Family. Providence, RI: H.H. Brown.

Gibson, Susan G., Ed. (1980) Burr's Hill: A 17th Century Wampanoag Burial Ground in Warren, Rhode Island. Bristol, RI: Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology 

Hall, John Raymond (1987) In a Place Called Swansea Baltimore: Gateway Press.

Lepore, Jill (1998) The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity New York, NY: Knopf.

Schultz, E.B. & Tougias, M.J. (1999) King Philip's War: The History and Legacy of America's Forgotten Conflict Woodstock, VT: The Countryman Press.

Wright, Otis Olney (Ed.) (1917) History of Swansea, Massachusetts 1667-1917 Published by the Town of Swansea.


Web Links

Wikipedia's description of the King Philip War: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Philip's_War

Mass Moments description of the outbreak of the War: http://massmoments.org/moment.cfm?mid=184

Plimoth Plantation's excellent history of the Wampanoag people: http://www.plimoth.org/features/homesite.php

Edward Randolph's description of King Philip's War written in 1685: http://www.swarthmore.edu/SocSci/bdorsey1/41docs/45-ran.html

King Philip's War: The Causes by the Pilgrim Hall Museum, Plymouth, MA: http://www.pilgrimhall.org/philipwar.htm

First Nations/First People's history of the Wampanoag tribe: http://www.dickshovel.com/wampa.html

The Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center: http://www.mashantucket.com

Swansea, Massachusetts local history page: http://www.swanseamass.org/local_history.html

The Town of Swansea's history: http://www.gargaro.com/thurber/swansea.html

University of Massachusett's Biology Department site: http://www.bio.umass.edu/biology/conn.river/philip.html

The William Bradford Web Site: http://www.angelfire.com/ny4/djw/williambradford.html

1975 news article about the War: http://www.sailsinc.org/durfee/kingphilipswar.pdf

King Philip's War by George W. Ellis and John E. Morris, 1906: http://ia341307.us.archive.org/0/items/cu31924028671331/cu31924028671331.pdf

Mashantucket Pequot Research Library bibliography: http://www.pequotmuseum.org/uploaded_images/8564D213-7519-4055-B791-ADD058B62EA7/KingPhilipsWar.htm

News from New England, a 1676 account of the War: http://ia341328.us.archive.org/3/items/cu31924104077635/cu31924104077635.pdf

The History of King Philip by John S.C. Abbott, 1857: http://ia350607.us.archive.org/0/items/historyofkingphi00abbouoft/historyofkingphi00abbouoft.pdf

The History of King Philip's War by Increase Mather, 1862: http://ia331408.us.archive.org/1/items/historyofkingphi00math/historyofkingphi00math.pdf

The History of the King Philip's War by Benjamin Church, 1865: http://ia311316.us.archive.org/3/items/historyofkingphi00chur/historyofkingphi00chur.pdf

Brief History of King Philip's War, 1675-1677 by George M. Bodge, 1891:  http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~massasoit/bodge.htm

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