Mashantucket Pequot Research Library

King Philip’s War

 A Bibliography

 

 

 

Abbott, John S.C. History of King Philip: Sovereign Chief of the Wampanoags: Including the Early History of the Settlers of New England. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1877, c1857.

RESEARCH RARE: E 83.67 .A12 H57 1877

 

_______. King Philip. New York: Harper & Bros., 1904

RESEARCH RARE: Pequot E 83.67 .A13 K56 1904

 

After King Philip’s War: Enslavement of Indian Children : Indian Concentration Camps. Thompson, CT: Nipmuc Indian Association of Connecticut,1995.

STACKS: E 83.67 .A38 1995  

 

Arnold, Laura K. “Crossing Cultures: Algonquian Indians and the Invention of New England.” Ph.D. diss., UCLA, 1995.

READING ROOM: Pequot E 99 .A35 A76 1995

 

Bodge, George M. A Brief History of King Philip’s War, 1675-1677 [microform]: Being a Summary of the Articles Appearing in the New-England Historical and Genealogical Register from 1883 to 1891, under the title, “Soldiers in King Philip’s War.” Boston: [s.n.], 1891

MULTI-MEDIA: PAH I-469

 

_______. The Narragansett Fort Fight, December 19, 1675 [microform]. [S.1. : s.n.], 1886

MULTI-MEDIA: PAH I-453

 

Bonfanti, Leo. Biographies and Legends of the New England Indians. Burlington, MA: Pride Publications, 1994.

READING ROOM: Local History E 78 .N5 B6 1994

 

Bourne, Russell. The Red King’s Rebellion: Racial Politics in New England, 1675-1678. New York: Atheneum, 1990.

READING ROOM: Local History E 83.67 .B74 1990

 

Bowen, James L. The Mohegan Maiden: or, The Stranger of the Settlement. A Story of King Phillip’s War. New York: Beadle and Adams, [1880].

READIN ROOM: Local History PS 1113 .B85 M64 1867r

 

Calloway, Colin G., ed. After King Philip’s War: Presence and Persistence in Indian New England. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1997.

READING ROOM: Local History E 78 .N5 A17 1997

 

_______. The Western Abenakis of Vermont, 1600-1800: War, Migration, and the Survival of an Indian People. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, c1990.

STACKS: E 99 .A13 C36 1990

 

Church, Benjamin. Diary of King Philip’s War, 1675-76. With an Introduction by Alan and Mary Simpson. Chester, CT.: Pequot Press, 1975.

READING ROOM: Local History E 83.67 .C54 1975

 

_______. The History of Philip’s War: Commonly Called the Great Indian War, of 1675 and 1676: also, of the French and Indian Wars at the Eastward, in 1689, 1690, 1692, 1696, and 1704. Bowie, MD.: Heritage Books, 1989.

READING ROOM: Local History E 83.67 .C573 1989

 

_______. The History of the Great Indian War of 1675 and 1676, Commonly Called Philip’s War: Also the Old French and Indian Wars, From 1689 to 1704. Hartford: Silas Andrus & Son, [1845].

READING ROOM: Local History E 83.67 .C4 1845

 

Cogley, Richard W. John Eliot’s Mission to the Indians before King Philip’s War. Cambridge, MA.: Harvard University Press, 1999.

READING ROOM: Local History E 78 .M4 C64 1999

 

Drake, James David. King Philip’s War: Civil War in New England, 1675-1676. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1999.

READING ROOM: Local History E 83.67 .D74 1999

 

_______ 1. “Restraining Atrocity: The Conduct of King Philip’s War.” New England Quarterly 70, no. 1 (1997): 33-56.

REFERENCE: Article File

 

_______. “Severing the Ties that Bind them: A Reconceptualization of King Philip’s War.” Ph.D. diss., UCLA, 1996.

READING ROOM: Local History E 83.67 D83 1996

 

_______ 2. “Symbol of a Failed Strategy: The Sassamon Trial, Political Culture, and the outbreak of King Philip’s War.” American Indian Culture and Research Journal 19, no. 2 (1995): 111-141.

REFERENCE: Article File

 

 

 

Drake, Samuel Gardner. Indian Biography, Containing the Lives of More than Two Hundred Indian Chiefs: Also Such Others of that Race as Have Rendered Their Names Conspicuous in the History of North America. Giving Their Most Celebrated Speeches, Memorable Sayings, Numerous Anecdotes; And a History of Their Wars. Much of Which is Taken from Manuscripts Never Before Published. Boston: J. Drake, 1832.

MULTI-MEDIA: ACS 85.8

 

Eastburn, James Wallis. Yamoyden, A Tale of the Wars of King Philip: in Six Cantos. New York: James Eastburn; Clayton & Kingsland, printers, 1820.

RESEARCH RARE:  PS 1567 .E16 1820

 

Everett, Edward. An Address Delivered at Bloody Brook, in South Deerfield, September 30, 1835, in Commemoration of the Fall of the “Flower of Essex,” at that Spot, in King Philip’s War, September 18, (o.s.) 1675. Boston: Russell, Shattuck, & Williams, 1835.

MULTI-MEDIA: PAH I-456

 

Exercises at the Bi-centennial Commemoration of the Burning of Medfield by Indians in King Philip’s War February 21, 1876. Medfield, MA.: George H. Ellis, 1876.

MULTI-MEDIA: G & LH LH 5696

 

Geller, L. D. “A Traditional Murder Test in King Philip’s War.” New York Folklore Quarterly 25 (1969): 195-201.

REFERENCE: Article File

 

Gookin, Daniel. An Historical Account of the Doings and Sufferings of the Christian Indians in New England, in the Years 1675, 1676, 1677. New York: Arno Press, 1972.

READING ROOM:  Local History E 83.67 .G66 1972

 

Hannan, Christopher William. “After this Time of Trouble and Warr”: Crisis and Continuity in the New England Anglo-Indian Community, 1660-1725.” Ph.D. diss., Boston College, 1999.

READING ROOM: Local History E 83.67 .H36 1999

 

Harris, William. A Rhode Islander Reports on King Philip’s War: The Second William Harris letter of August 1676. Transcribed and edited by Douglas Edward Leach. Providence: Rhode Island Historical Society, 1963.

READING ROOM: Local History E 83.67 .H3 1963

 

Hoyt, E. Antiquarian Researches: Comprising a History of the Indian Wars in the Country Bordering Connecticut River and Parts Adjacent, and Other Interesting Events, from the First Landing of the Pilgrims, to the Conquest of Canada by the English, in 1760: With Notices of Indian Depredations in the Neighboring Country: And of the First Planting and Progress of Settlements in New England, New York and Canada. Greenfield, MA.: Printed by A. Phelps, Dec. 1824.

RESEARCH RARE: Pequot E 82 .H86 1824

 

Hubbard, William. A Narrative of the Indian Wars in New-England: From the First Planting Thereof in the Year 1607, to the Year 1677: Containing a relation of the Occasion, Rise and Progress of the War With the Indians, in the Southern, Western, Eastern and Northern Parts of Said Country. Norwich, CT.: Printed by John Trumbull, [1802]

RESEARCH RARE: E 82 .H875 1802

 

Invasion of the Coast: The First English Settlements. Burbank, CA: Warner Home Video, [1995], c1994.

MULTI-MEDIA: VID E 77 .F58 1995 vol. 4

 

Kawashima, Yasuhide.  Igniting King Philip’s War: The John Sassamon Murder Trial. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2001.

STACKS: KF 8205 .K38 2001

 

Kestler, Frances Roe. “Mary White Rowlandson: The Significance of her Narrative in American Literature.” Ph.D. thesis, St. John’s University, 1982.

STACKS: E 87 .R895 K47 1982

 

Leach, Douglas Edward. “Benjamin Batten and the London Gazette Report on King Philip’s War.” New England Quarterly 36 (1963): 502-517.

MULTI-MEDIA: Microfilm

 

_______. Flintlock and Tomahawk: New England in King Philip’s War. New York: Macmillan, 1958.

READING ROOM: Local History E 83.67 .L43 1995

 

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

READING ROOM: Local History E 87.67 .L466 1998

 

_______. “The Name of War: Waging, Writing, and Remembering King Philip’s War.” Ph.D. diss., Yale University, 1995.

READING ROOM: Local History E 83.67 .L46 1995

 

Lincoln, Charles Henry. Narratives of the Indian Wars, 1675-1699. New York: Barnes & Noble, 1941.

READING ROOM: Local History E 83.67 .N37 1941

 

Mather, Increase. A Brief History of the War with the Indians in New-England. From June 24, 1675. (when the First Englishman was Murdered by the Indians) to August 12, 1676. when Philip, alias Metacomet, the Principal Author and Beginner of the War, was Slain. Wherein the Grounds, Beginning, and Progress of the War, is Summarily Expressed. Together with a Serious Exhortation to the Inhabitants of that Land. London: R. Chiswell, 1676.

MULTI-MEDIA: ACS 7.75

 

_______. Diary by Increase Mather, March, 1675 – December, 1676. Together with Extracts From another Diary by Him, 1676-1687. Cambridge: J. Wilson, 1900.

MULTI-MEDIA: ACS 306.7

 

_______. The History of King Philip’s War; also, A History of the Same War. Bowie, MD.: Heritage Books, 1990.

READING ROOM: Local History E 83.67 .M42 1862r

 

McSpadden, J. Walker. Indian Heroes. New York: Crowell, 1950.

STACKS: E 89 .M37 1950

 

McWilliams, John. “A Cloud of Blood: King Philip’s War” in New England’s Crises and Cultural Memory: Literature, Politics, History, Religion 1620-1860. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004.

STACKS: PS 243 .M38 2004

 

Menta, John. “Cultural Conflict in Southern New England: A History of the Quinnipiac Indians.” Master’s thesis, Southern Connecticut State University, 1994.

READING ROOM: Local History E 99 .Q7 M46 1994

 

Morrison, Kenneth M. “The Bias of Colonial Law: English Paranoia and the Abenaki Arena of King Philip’s War, 1675-1678.” New England Quarterly 53 (1980): 363-387.

MICROFILM

 

O’Connell, Barry, ed. “Eulogy on King Philip.” In On Our Own Ground:The Complete Writings of William Apess, a Pequot. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1992.

READING ROOM: Pequot E 78 .N5 A64 1992

 

Peirce, Ebenezer Weaver. Indian History, Biography and Genealogy: Pertaining to the Good Sachem Massasoit of the Wampanoag Tribe, and his Descendants. North Abington, MA.: Z.G. Mitchell, 1878.

RESEARCH RARE: E 90 .M4 P3 1878

 

Pulsipher, Jenny Hale. “The Overture of this New-Albion World”: King Philip’s War and the Transformation of New England.” Ph.D. diss., Brandeis University, 1999.

READING ROOM: Local History E 83.67 .P84 1999

 

Ranlet, Philip. “Another Look at the Causes of King Philip’s War.” In New England Encounters: Indians and Euroamericans ca. 1600-1850, edited by Alden T. Vaughan. Boston, Northeastern University Press, c1999. First published in New England Quarterly 61 (1988): 79-100.

READING ROOM: Local History E 78 .N5 N48 1999

 

 

Reynolds, Grindall. King Philip’s War with Special Reference to the Attack on Brookfield, in August, 1675. [S.1.: s.n.], 1888

MULTI-MEDIA: PAH I-452

 

Roman, Joseph. King Philip, Wampanoag Rebel. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1992.

REFERENCE:  E 99 .W2 P487 1992

 

Rowlandson, Mary White. The Sovereignty and Goodness of God, Together with the Faithfulness of His Promises Displayed: Being a Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson and Related Documents. Boston: Bedford Books, 1997.

READING ROOM: Local History E 87 .R894 1997

 

_______. [Soveraignty Goodness of God] A True History of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson. New York: Garland Pub., 1977

STACKS: E 85 .G2 1975 Vol. 1

 

Schultz, Eric B. & Michael J. Tougias. King Philip’s War: The History and Legacy of America’s Forgotten Conflict. Woodstock, VT: Countryman Press, 1999.

READING ROOM: Local History E 83.67 .S38 1999

 

Skinner, H.B. The Book of Indian Battles from the Landing of the Pilgrims in 1620 to the end of King Philip’s War, Containing many Descriptive Anecdotes and Incidents of a Truthful and Entertaining Character, Beautifully Illustrated with many Engravings. Boston: Skinner’s Book Agency Office, c1853.

MULTI-MEDIA: PAH I-80

 

Slotkin, Richard & James K. Folsom, eds. So Dreadfull a Judgment: Puritan Responses to King Philip’s War, 1676-1677. Middletown, CT.: Wesleyan University Press, 1978.

READING ROOM: Local History E 83.67 .S65 1978

 

Smith, Frank. Biographical Sketch of the Residents of that Part of Dedham, Which is now Dover, Who took Part in King Philip’s War, the Last French and Indian War, and the Revolution Together with the Record of the Services of those who Represented Dover in the War of 1812, the War with Mexico, the Civil War, and the War with Spain. Dover, MA.: Printed by the Town, 1909.

MULTI-MEDIA: G&LH LH 4819

 

Spady, James. “As if in a Great Darkness: Native American Refugees of the Middle Connecticut River Valley in the Aftermath of King Philip’s War.” Historical Journal of Massachusetts 23, no. 2 (1995): 183-197.

REFERENCE: Article File

 

Stevens, Benjamin F. King Philip’s War, 1675…Boston: Nathan Sawyer & Son, 1900?

MULTI-MEDIA: PAH I-403

 

Stockwell, John. The Account of John Stockwell of Deerfield, Massachusetts: Being a Faithful Narrative of his Experiences at the Hands of the Wachusetts Indians – 1677-1678. Somerville, N.J.: [Clark S. Yowell, 1928?]

READING ROOM: Reference E 83.67 .S76 1928

 

Tougias, Mike. Until I have no Country: A Novel of King Philip’s War in New England. North Attleborough, MA: Covered Bridge Press, 1996.

STACKS: PS 3570 .O86 U58 1996

 

Turnbaugh, William A. & William Scranton Simmons. “An Indian Peace Medal from King Philip’s War, 1676.” Man in the Northeast 22 (1981): 159-164.

REFERENCE: Article File

 

Trumbull, Benjamin. A Compendium of the Indian Wars in New England: More Particularly Such as the Colony of Connecticut Have Been Concerned and Active in New Haven, August 25th anno 1767. Hartford: Published for C.A. Goodwin by E.V. Mitchell, 1926.

RESEARCH RARE: Pequot E 83 .63 .T85 1926

 

U.S. Government Printing Office. Connecticut’s Activities in the Wars of this Country: a Summary. Washington, D.C.: 1932.

READING ROOM: Local History F 94 .C67 1932

 

Vaughan, Alden T., ed. New England Encounters: Indians and Euroamericans ca. 1600-1850: Essays Drawn from The New England Quarterly. Boston: Northeastern University Press, c1999.

READING ROOM: Local History E 78 .N5 N48 1999

 

Webb, Stephen Saunders. 1676: The end of American Independence. New York: Knopf, 1984.

STACKS: F 229 .W36 1984

 

Weddle, Meredith Baldwin, Walking in the Way of Peace: Quaker Pacifism in the Seventeenth Century.  New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.

STACKS: BX 7639 .W43 2001

 

Wing, William A. Peleg Slocum of Dartmouth and his Wife Mary Holder. [New Bedford, Mass.]: The Society, [1904?]

MULTI-MEDIA: G&LH LH 5928

 

Zawodniak, Brian John. Connecticut in King Philip’s War. Hartford, CT.: The Author, c1993.

READING ROOM: Pequot E 83.67 .Z39 1993

 

Revised January 2007 by the staff of the Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center, Information Resources Department