"31 July 1676, Akkompoin, a brother of "good old Massasoit," and uncle to King Philip, when attempting to cross over Taunton river upon a large tree that the Indians had felled across that stream, was fired upon by some Bridgewater people and killed, as were also several other Indians, his companions. The English fired from ambush. A sister of King Philip was captured the same day."[1][p. 151]
Captured by the English July 31, 1676.
His brother, Massasoit, was Sachem of the Wampanoag when the Pilgrims arrived at Plymouth in 1620. Although he is not mentioned by name in any English accounts prior to 1621, he and his brother Quadequina are undoubtedly the 'two Kings, attended with a guard of fiftie armed men' that met Captain Thomas Dermer at Pokanoket in May 1619, when he was returning Tisquantum ('Squanto') to his homeland." [2]
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