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Updated: April 30, 2025
The Indians had imbibed the superstitious notion, which had probably been taught them by John Sassamon, that the party which should commence the war and shed the first blood would be defeated. They therefore wished, by violence and insult, to provoke the English to strike the first blow.
The colonists justly regarded these young men as dangerous to the public peace, and there was never a moment of true friendship after the death of Massasoit. The particular occasion of the war was the murder by Philip's agents of one Sassamon, an educated Indian, who had been his private secretary.
Having in this confidential station obtained a knowledge of Philip's plans, he went to the English, by whom he had been educated, and probably disclosed his master's secrets. Philip secured his death, and of all who fell in fight or fray, or on the gallows swung, none deserved death before Sassamon.
One of them, it is said, when upon the point of death, confessed that he was a spectator of the murder, which was committed by the other two. The summary execution of three of Philip's subjects enraged and alarmed the Wampanoags exceedingly. As the death of Sassamon had been undeniably ordered by Philip, he was apprehensive that he also might be kidnapped and hung.
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