The primary sources of King Philip’s War offer a firsthand account of the events of this complicated war between the English colonists and the Native Americans of New England in… Read more »

King Philip’s War was a war between the English colonists and the Native Americans in New England in the late 17th century. It was a brief but deadly war with… Read more »

Edward “Ned” Low was an English-born pirate who later moved to Boston, Mass in his youth. Low was born into poverty in Westminster, London in 1690 and later became a… Read more »

Philip Ashton Jr was a fisherman from Marblehead who was captured by pirates off the coast of Nova Scotia and later escaped on a remote island in the Caribbean where… Read more »

Marblehead is a historic town in Massachusetts. It was first inhabited by the Naumkeag tribe before being settled as a fishing village by the Massachusetts Bay colonists in the 17th… Read more »