275Th Anniversary of the Town of Bristol, Rhode Island Official Souvenir Booklet

Bristol, RI: Bristol Historical Society. Very Good+. 1955. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Paperback. B&W Illustrations; This is an oversized paperback book with illustrated cardstock covers and a glued spine. The book is in Very Good+ condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The front cover of the book has some beginning sunning to the top and bottom edges and along the rear foredge. There is some light rubbing and wear to the spine ends and corners of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. "Before the Pilgrims arrived in 1620, the Pokanokets occupied much of Southern New England, including Plymouth. They had previously suffered from a series of plagues which killed off large segments of their population, and their leader, the Massasoit Osamequin, befriended the early settlers. King Philip's War was a conflict between the Plymouth settlers and the Pokanokets and allied tribes, and it began in the neighboring area of Swansea, Massachusetts. Metacomet made nearby Mount Hope (a corruption of the Pokanoket word Montaup) his base of operations; he died following an ambush by Captain Benjamin Church on August 12, 1676. "Massasoit's Seat" is a rocky ledge on the mountain which was a lookout site for enemy ships on Mount Hope Bay. " (from Wikipedia) .