![]() ![]() There was no likeness of Philip that survived, therefore, we do not know what he looked like. His daughter Lucy had escaped by canoe to Canada. ![]() His wife and son, age 9, were captured during the war and sold into slavery in the West Indies as were hundreds of other Indians. A child of Philip was buried on April 1, 1671, at Mount Hope. No one knows how many children King Philip and Wootonekanuske had or what happened to them. A son of Philip, a daughter of Philip, a child of Philip, and Lucy, another daughter, were born to this couple. He married an Indian woman named Wootonekanuske. 1638, either in Massachusetts or Rhode Island, probably in Sowans, Rhode Island and lived at Mount Hope. Massasoit’s principle residence was with the Pokanoket at Sowams in Rhode Island, but he was Grand Sachem of the whole Wampanoag Confederacy and had as many as 31 sub tribes under him. ![]() When the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth in 1620, it was Massasoit’s territory they invaded. Metacom, King Philip as the colonists called him, became leader of the Wampanoag Confederacy in 1662, was the second son of Chief Massasoit, and was known as Metacomet and Philip of Pokanoket. Home What’s New King Philip’s WarSite Map
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