Team Members Nicole Corbo, Nicole Giella, and Quinlan Treacy Description: On April 6th, 1671, Nathaniel Bacon sent a report about the native people to Governor Thomas Prence of Plymouth. This letter advises Prence on strategies for handling conflict in the community, amid growing tensions between the colonists and the Narragansetts. The letter recognizes and […]
Current Map of Plymouth Team Members: Hannah DiPilato and Griffin Morrill Description: In August of 1671, John Elliot wrote this piece asking for peace and mercy on behalf of the Praying Indian tribe. He asks as an intercessor between the two parties due to his religious authority because there are plans to attack the tribe […]
Current Map of Rhode Island Team Members: Dylan Woods, Chad Jones, and Stephanie Sala Description: Josiah Winslow and Thomas Prence write to King Phillip attempting to settle a dispute between Phillip and native tribes. King Phillip believes Narragansetts and others are teaming up against his orders. Winslow and […]
Current Map of Rhode Island Team Members: Tatum Lee and Shannon Chiras Description: This letter, written in 1671, from an English Protestant colonist located in Rhode Island to English authorities. They address and express their concerns about King Philip breaking the peace agreement between the Wampanoag tribe and English settlers. This led the […]
Team Members: Elise Reehl and Victoria Tormey Description: The first page, written in 1671 by Constans Southward, lists Native people under the rule of Awashanoke, who signed this document to declare loyalty to the English. The second, by Prenyc, expresses how the English are glad Awashanoke has submitted but wishes more of her people would […]
Team Members: Rishab Nair and Ryan Feriancek Description: This letter is dated to September 7, 1671, four years before the outbreak of King Philip’s war. An unidentified settler writes to two men named Winthrop and Willis about the local Indians, who are allegedly acting disrespectfully. He also mentions a request for supplies and a meeting […]
Current Map of Boston Team Members: Marin Bluestein, Alison Goldblatt, and Tyler Miller Description: This letter was written by Edward Rawson, who was the Secretary of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He wrote this letter in 1671. It was most likely intended for someone in the English government regarding getting Metacom to sign a peace treaty as […]
Current Map of Newport, RI Team Members: Saki Matsumoto and Courtney Borge Description: A letter dated in 1671, written and signed by six colonists of Rhode Island. Addressing the Governor of Massachusetts, they pledge their loyalty and request more land under his power. They also promise to ensure the colony will prosper and honor Massachusetts’ […]
Team Members: Cameron Close and Peyton Coel Description: After the recent attacks at Swansea, William Coddington writes to fellow governor Josiah Winslow to prepare to fight the Native Americans, not before sending in men to destroy the latter’s canoes. Arms, ammunition, and other supplies from Holland and New York have just arrived as well, much […]
Current Map of Boston Team Members: Lyda Arevalo, John McLaughlin, and Theodore Phua Description: Letters from September 1678 between Nathaniel Reynolds and Josiah Winslow, governor of Plymouth Colony. Reynolds offers a list of men who can help settle the disputed land at Mount Hope, acquired by Plymouth from the Wampanoags at the conclusion of King Philip’s […]