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Agreement of 1621 between Plymouth and the Pokanoket

Agreement of 22 March 1621 between Ousamequin (Massasoit) and Plymouth’s governor John Carver.

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Harvest feast of 1621 According to Plimoth Patuxet Museums Scholarship & press 1
The museum says the feast “may have served” to reaffirm the agreement; this is its reading.

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You Are The Historian, Unit 2: Leadership and Diplomacy, Plimoth Patuxet Museums. Scholarship & press
The Pokanoket sachem, Ousamequin - also known to history as Massasoit - made an agreement with John Carver, the English governor of Plymouth Colony, on March 22, 1621.
With a few exceptions, the alliance survived for nearly fifty years. Eventually, however, it could not withstand the population pressures and land use controversies that culminated in the outbreak of violence in 1675.
The English took the opportunity to enlist the Pokanoket and other Wampanoag communities as allies.
The celebrations in Plymouth in the fall of 1621 may have served not only to celebrate a successful harvest, but also to reaffirm the agreement between the English and the Pokanoket.
Bradford's History of 'Plimoth Plantation' (Commonwealth of Massachusetts print of 1898; superscripts such as “ye” are flattened in this text), William Bradford (text via Project Gutenberg). Primary record
2. That if any of his did any hurte to any of theirs, he should send ye offender, that they might punish him.
6. That when ther men came to them, they should leave their bows & arrows behind them.
came with the cheefe of his freinds & other attendance, with the aforesaid Squanto

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