Author Eric Schultz, along with co-author Michael Tougias, wrote the most comprehensive modern review of King Philip’s War in 1999. In this March 20, 2024 Zoom presentation by WayCAM-TV, Schultz recounts the causes of the War and its course over the 14 months from June of 1675 to it’s primary conclusion in August of 1676 with the capture of Anawan. Click here for a recording of the 52-minute presentation.

(Above) Schultz recounts how he first became interested in the War when he grew up in North Dighton and passed Anawan Rock in Rehoboth and later at Brown University visited the Haffenreffer Museum in Bristol. Plymouth Colony is led by Governor Josiah Winslow, Massachustts Bay Colony is led by Governor John Leveritt, and Connecticut was led by John Winthrop, Sr.

(Above) These graphics illustrate how the War took place largely in the frontier settlements of the English and the genealogy of the Massasoit Ousamequin and his family, including his sons Wamsutta and Metacomet (click on images to enlarge).

(Above) Wamsutta was suspected of being poisoned upon returning from a meeting in Plymouth, leaving his younger brother, Metacomet, to lead the Pokanokets. Charts depict the opening events of the War in June, 1675, and list the major books written about the War, including Geoge Bodge’s Soldiers in King Philip’s War; Peirce’s Indian history, biography and genealogy: pertaining to the good sachem Massasoit; Douglas Edward Leach’s Flintlock and Tomahawk: New England in King Philip’s War; George Ellis and John Morris’s King Philip’s War; Yasuhide Kawashima’s Igniting King Philip’s War; Lisa Brooks’ Our Beloved Kin; Christine DeLucia’s Memory Lands; Ned Blackhawk’s The Rediscovery of America; and David Silverman’s This Land is Their Land.