Massasoit Community College - Yearbook (Brockton, MA)

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hief Massasoit The namesake of th1s co arles of Massachusetts throughout the reg1ons of panoags who had at one tlme destroyed by an epldemlc just In March of 1621 an 1 grlms by speaklng to them 1n a meetmg between the ofthe Wampanoags Massaso two men a treaty whlch held In 1623 Massasolt became effected a cure In return make an attack on the wh1te All through h1s re1gn as chlef w1th the colon1sts A wrlter of He was a chlef renowned more to the Enghsh even as they L1tt1e 1S known about the 4 the Enghsh untll h1s death 3 born w1th1n the present bound the Wampanoags were located n d Massachusetts The Warn thousand had almost been of the Mayflower and surpnsed the P11 and had come to arrange Bradford and the Ch1ef treaty of peace was s1gned by the on for fifty four years ted by Edward W1nslow who of that a ne1ghbor1ng tr1be was to a practlce of l1v1ng 111 harmony hlm was as long as he hved a fr1end upon h1S land and l1bGI't18S he sold the s1te of Duxbury to