BH&PS Winter History Book Club
Join the Bristol Historical & Preservation Society and the Rogers Free Library to commemorate the 350th anniversary of the King Philip War with a three session History Book Club to meet on February 1, March 1, and April 5.
BOOK 1 for discussion on FEBRUARY 1, 2025: "Mayflower" by Nathaniel Philbrick
The History Book Club will meet in the Quiet Study Room at the Rogers Free Library, 525 Hope Street, Bristol.
On June 21, 1675, Pokanoket warriors killed seven colonists in Swansea in retaliation for a series of injustices suffered at the hands of the English. Generally considered the beginning of King Philip's War, this act led to a bloody conflict that involved every New England colony and Algonquian peoples throughout the region. Local tribes attacked more than half of all the settlements in New England and reduced about a dozen towns in Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay colonies to ashes. By the end of the War in August of 1676, more than 600 settlers had died and 1,200 homes had been burned. An estimated 3,000 Native Americans died at the hands of the English.
