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			1662 The Wampanoag sachem Wamsutta dies mysteriously.
1675 King Philip's War
			1677 Surviving Indians confined to Praying Towns
1683 Mary Rowlandson's narrative
			1689 Abenaki kill Richard Waldron in Dover, NH
1704 Deerfield Massacre
			1772 Paul Revere engraves a "portrait" of King Philip
1773 Mary Rowlandson's narrative reprinted
			1814 Washington Irving, "Philip of Pokanoket"
1827 James Fenimore Cooper, "The Wept of Wish-ton-Wish"
			1829 First performance of "Metamora"
1836 William Apess. Eulogy on King Philip
			1842 Eleanor Field gives the Rhode Island Historical Society a basket purportedly made during King Philip's War.
1860 Matthew Brady photographs Edwin Forrest as "Metamora"