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As the English colonies in North America continued to grow and the threats they faced grew along with them

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is the second son of Massasoit

King Philip Sloop As the English colonies inMetacom, known as King Philip by the English, is the second son of Massasoit, the Wampanoag Sachem who had dealt peacefully with early English settlement of Massachusetts and Rhode Island (most famously with the Puritans at Plymouth). Metacom succeeds his father as Sachem of the Pokanoket tribe and Grand Sachem of the Wampanoag nation, but given English settlement and expansion in the region, conflict was inevitable. By the 1670s, the Wampanoag are