He walked through the deep snow of a hard winter the 105 miles from Salem to the head of Narragansett Bay where the local Wampanoags offered him shelter and took him to the winter camp of their chief sachem, Massasoit, where he resided for 3 and a half months.

Contact with the Native Americans came in March 1621 through Samoset, an English-speaking Abenaki who arranged for the Pilgrims to meet with Massasoit, the sachem of the nearby Pokanoket tribe.

It was founded on land purchased by English settlers at the Plymouth Colony from the Wampanoag sachem Massasoit, and his son, Wamsutta.

On March 16, the settlers had their first meeting with the Native Americans who lived in the region when Samoset, a representative of Massasoit, the sachem of the Pokanoket, walked into the village of Plymouth.

* King Philip's War in Peirce, Ebenezer Weaver, Indian history, biography and genealogy: pertaining to the good sachem Massasoit of the Wampanoag tribe, and his descendants, Z. G.

In 1621 Tisquantum was the guide and translator for settlers Stephen Hopkins and Edward Winslow as they traveled upland on a diplomatic mission to the Wampanoag sachem, known today as Massasoit.

was the sachem, or leader, of the Wampanoag, and " Massasoit " of the Wampanoag Confederacy.

During his reign as grand sachem, Massasoit never permitted the Pokanoket to convert to Christianity, and with great diplomatic skill, managed to stay such efforts.

She had five husbands, the most famous of whom was Wamsutta, the eldest son of Massasoit, grand sachem of the Wampanoag and participant in the first Thanksgiving with the Pilgrims.

Hobbamock, another influential ally, was a pniese — a high-ranking advisor to Massasoit — and a warrior who commanded particular respect and fear among Native Americans.

During this politically promising time, Massasoit had five children: " Moanam ", or Wamsutta, who was born sometime between 1621 and 1624 ; Pometecomet, Metacomet, or Metacom ; a third son, Sonkanuchoo ; and two daughters, one named Amie and one whose name is unrecorded.

When the Massasoit, whose name was Ousamequin, died, he was succeeded as Great Leader of the Pokanoket Nation by his sons, first by Wamsutta, who was perhaps poisoned, and then by Metacomet ( also known as King Philip ), who was killed in the Great New England War of 1675 – 1676.

Among these was Fairhaven, Massachusetts, founded on land purchased by English settlers of the Plymouth Colony from a friendly Native American tribal chief, Massasoit, and his son, who was named Wamsutta.

Another legend indicates that Passaconaway was summoned to the Plymouth area of Massachusetts by the Wampanoag chief Massasoit, asking Passaconaway to use his supernatural powers to rid the land of the Pilgrims who were building a village on the shore.

On March 22, the first governor of Plymouth Colony, John Carver, signed a treaty with Massasoit, declaring an alliance between the Pokanoket and the Englishmen and requiring the two parties to defend each other in times of need.

Massasoit warned the Pilgrims to strike first.

* 23 November — representatives of Harvard Crimson, Yale Bulldogs, Princeton Tigers and Columbia Lions meet at the Massasoit House in Springfield, Massachusetts to standardise a new code of rules based on the Canadian rugby game first introduced to Harvard by Canada's McGill University in 1874.

On November 23, 1876, representatives from Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Columbia met at the Massasoit House in Springfield, Massachusetts to standardize a new code of rules based on the rugby game first introduced to Harvard by McGill University in 1874.

The first formal meeting with the Indians was held at Hopkins ’ house and he was called upon to participate in early Pilgrim visits with the Indian leader Massasoit.

* 1621 – The Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony sign a peace treaty with Massasoit of the Wampanoags.

* March 22 – The Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony sign a peace treaty with Massasoit of the Wampanoags.

Not only had the Pilgrims proved violent and revengeful, but Indian leader Massasoit had betrayed his former Indian compatriots.

To protest the silencing of the American Indian people, he and his supporters went to neighboring Cole's Hill, near the statue of Massasoit, the leader of the Wampanoag when the Pilgrims landed.

Traditionally, Massasoit greeted the Pilgrims at Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1621.

According to English sources, Massasoit prevented the failure of Plymouth Colony and the almost certain starvation that the Pilgrims faced during the earliest years of the colony's establishment.

Soon after the death of Massasoit, Wamsutta and Pometecomet went to Plymouth and requested the Pilgrims to give them English names.

Massasoit received no payment for these lands, and did not want any.

Although the settlers did not call the Pokanoket leaders by the title Massasoit after Ousamequin died, they did refer to them as Kings, and the Great New England War was called King Philip's War by the settlers, named after Metacomet.

There was some tension between Massasoit and the colonists when they refused to give up Squanto whom Massasoit believed to have betrayed him.

This was not resolved until a visit by Edward Winslow to Massasoit in March 1623 when Massasoit was ill and Winslow nursed him.

When Massasoit died, his son Wamsutta ( Alexander ) became his successor, but when Wamsutta also died in 1662, Metacom ( Philip ) succeeded him.

Massasoit Community College and Massasoit State Park, both located in Massachusetts, are named after him.

At the beginning of the 1995 film adaptation of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, Massasoit dies and his tribe cremates him.

For almost half a century after the colonists ' arrival, Massasoit of the Wampanoag had maintained an uneasy alliance with the English to benefit from their trade goods and as a counter-weight to his tribe's traditional enemies, the Pequot, Narragansett, and the Mohegan.

Aided by Squanto, a Native American of the Patuxet people, the colony was able to establish a treaty with Chief Massasoit which helped to ensure the colony's success.

Smaller councils began to be consolidated, which led to Massasoit Council merging with the Cachalot Council to form the Moby Dick Council with the two former councils becoming districts.

Massasoit Council's Noquochoke Lodge 124 of the Order of the Arrow merged with Cachalot Council's Agawam Lodge 509 to form Neemat Lodge 124.

The land was purchased with trading goods from the Wampanoag chiefs Massasoit and Wamsutta by elders of the Plymouth Colony ; reportedly thirty yards of cloth, eight moose skins, fifteen axes, fifteen hoes, fifteen pairs of shoes, one iron pot, and ten shillings ' worth of assorted goods.

Massasoit decided to make a peace treaty with the new immigrants for a number of reasons.

Aided by Squanto, a Native American of the Patuxet people, the colony was able to establish a treaty with Chief Massasoit which helped to ensure the colony's success.

This soon led to a visit by Massasoit himself on March 22 during which the leader of the Pokanoket signed a treaty with John Carver, then Governor of Plymouth.

Plymouth, Massachusetts, was established in 1620 with significant early help from local Native Americans, particularly Squanto and Massasoit, chief of the Wampanoag tribe.

Massasoit had to accept colonial incursion into Wampanoag territory as well as English political interference with his tribe.

Metacomet began negotiating with the other Algonquian tribes against the Plymouth Colony soon after the deaths of his father Massasoit in 1661 and his brother Wamsutta in 1662.

In March 1621, Carver established a peace treaty with Chief Massasoit of the Wampanoag tribe.

Massasoit of the Wampanoag nation allied with the English at Plymouth as a way to protect the Wampanoag from Narragansett attacks.

Massasoit gifted Roger Williams with Aquidneck Island, Providence and Prudence Island for his friendship and love of Natives.

In March 1621, three months after the founding of Plymouth, an Abenaki named Samoset entered the town and exclaimed in English — which he had learned from the Penobscot fishermen and from the English fishermen that came to fish off Monhegan Island — “ Welcome, Englishmen !” He announced himself as the envoy of Massasoit, “ the greatest commander of the country .” After some negotiation, Massasoit came in person and was received with due ceremony.

Massasoit smoking a peace pipe with Governor John Carver in Plymouth Colony | Plymouth 1621.