John Sassamon Prosecution Team by Brad Woodcock

2024-02-07 13:51:35 UTC

savannamcclellan — 2024-02-07 13:52:24 UTC

"Shortly before the outbreak of hostilities, Phillip had dismissed Sassamon from his service, possibly out of distrust for his ties with the English or over a disputed land transaction in which Sassamon had tried to dupe the sachem."

2024-02-07 13:53:12 UTC

Sassamon visited Governor Josiah Winslow at his home to warn him that the Wampanoag were planning to wage war against the English. Then Sassamon turns up dead.

danielduncan7 — 2024-02-07 13:55:10 UTC

Tobias's son confessed to Tobias and other 2 Indians killing Sassamon.

danielduncan7 — 2024-02-07 13:57:22 UTC

Sassamon's body had a broken neck, which was most likely caused by force, and his lungs were not full of water, so he did not accidentally drown.

2024-02-07 13:57:28 UTC

"Sassamon was ambushed and assassinated. A mixed jury of colonists and Indian elders convicted and executed three Wampanoag men for his murder."

2024-02-07 13:59:33 UTC

savannamcclellan — 2024-02-07 13:59:53 UTC

WE ARE TALKING ABOUT KING PHILIP HAVING SOMETHING TO DO WITH JOHN SASSAMONS MURDER

2024-02-07 14:00:24 UTC

"The English should do to them as they did when they were too strong for the English."

lukemartin16 — 2024-02-07 14:00:50 UTC

"Bodge believed that Philip was "a leader of consummate skill, in bringing together the unwieldy and most un willing forces, and pushing forward other bands of other tribes to bear the burnt and dangers which his own plotting had brought upon them."

2024-02-07 14:01:28 UTC

2024-02-07 14:04:02 UTC

"Sassamon told Winslow he believed his life was in danger that Philip would surely would murder him if his betrayal was discovered" so pretty much he deserved it

danielduncan7 — 2024-02-07 14:04:37 UTC

The jury had 12 Englishmen and 4 Indian elders, so there were Indian representatives in the jury.

2024-02-07 14:05:22 UTC

Paul Revere described King Philip's portrait as "hideous," a "neurotic pygmy," a "grotesque effigy," and a "terror to children."

danielduncan7 — 2024-02-07 14:06:51 UTC

King Philip had a motive to kill John Sassamon as Sassamon was thought to have wronged King Philip in a land transaction. Other motives as well.

2024-02-07 14:08:00 UTC

The body of Sassamon began to allegally bleed when put in front of phillp's men

John Sassamon was considered a traitor to King Philip and his loyal followers.

danielduncan7 — 2024-02-07 14:08:15 UTC

Try to also think about arguments that the defense team will make, and have a reply ready for each one.

bradwoodcock — 2024-02-07 14:10:46 UTC

lukemartin16 — 2024-02-07 14:14:03 UTC

"Philips actions was bound to run its course. In the mid 1970s a new, revisionist tide was crashing in, characterizing Philips as "the innocent victim of Purican skullduggeries," trampled by the so-called Second Puritan Conquest, a willful and illegal land grab."

savannamcclellan — 2024-02-07 14:14:26 UTC

John Sassamon had went the short journey to tell the colony's governor of King Philips plan to start a war in hopes that there would be some kind of reward for such information or some type of protection. "Sassamon told Winslow he believed his life was in danger, that Philip would surely murder him if his betrayal was discovered." The governor did not speak of any reward or protection but "dismissed Sossamon's information 'because it had an Indian original, and can hardly believe them [even] when they speak the truth.'"

2024-02-08 13:43:12 UTC

King Philip could have had John killed either as punishment for his treasonous betrayal or to prevent further leaks of information to the English.

2024-02-08 13:44:45 UTC

" King Philip suspecting he either would divulge or had already made known this secret to the English , took Counsel to kill this sosoman "

2024-02-08 13:45:36 UTC

"It was reported Sassamon before his death had informed of the Indian plot, and that if the Indians knew it they would kill him."

2024-02-08 13:48:05 UTC

" no doubt but one reason why the Indians murdered John Sassamon , was out of hatred against him for his Religion "

2024-02-08 13:49:50 UTC

"Patuckson claimed to have seen Philip's men violently murder Sassmon and then conceal their crime by shoving the body through a hole in the ice".

2024-02-08 13:52:11 UTC

Others claimed that Philip had Sassamon killed because he himself got tired of Sassamon's proselytizing