On August 12, 1676 the leader of the Wampanoag sachem, Metacomet (also known as King Philip) was shot and killed by John Alderman, a Native American soldier in Benjamin Church's company.
Alderman later sold the severed head to Plymouth Colony authorities for 30 shillings, a standard rate for Indian heads during King Philip's War.
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The head was then placed on a stake atop the fort on Burial Hill in Plymouth, where it remained for the next 20 years.
Finding the chief hiding in a swamp, one of his men, an Indian named John Alderman shot Metacomet.
Hunted by a group of rangers led by Captain Benjamin Church, he was fatally shot by a praying Indian named John Alderman, on August 12, 1676, in the Miery Swamp near Mount Hope in Bristol, Rhode Island.
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