...Philip then told the grievances of his people. When the first colonists came, his father, Massasoit, " was as a great man, and the English as a little child," to whom he freely did good ; but now the Americans were insulted and cheated in bargains, until "they...

...good to the English and the English the first in doing wrong; said when the English first came, their king's father was as a great man and the English as...a little child; he constrained other Indians from wronging the English, gave them corn and showed them how to plant; and was free to do them any good,...

...English the first in doing wrong, [and they] said, when the English first came, their king's father was a great man and the English as a little child. He constrained other Indians from wronging the English and gave them corn and showed them how to plant and was free to do them any good...

...beginning of King Philip's War, Metacom told the Quaker John Easton that "when the English first came their king's father was as a great man and the English as a little child, [and] he constrained other Indians from wronging the English and gave them corn and showed them how...