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Description
Engraving of Benjamin Church (1639-1718). Church was a colonial soldier in King Philip's War and took a leading role in the Great Swamp Fight of Dec. 1675.
Church's military company was responsible for hunting down and killing Matacomet (King Phillip) in August 1676.
About This Item
- Title: Benjamin Church, ca. 1675
- Creation Date: 1881
- Subject Date: circa 1675
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Locations:
- CT
- Mount Hope, RI
- Media: Engraving, ink on paper
- Local Code: Coll. 420; MS00-20.0336E
- Collection: John S. H. Fogg autograph collection
- Object Type: Image
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Standardized Subject Headings
- Church, Benjamin, 1639-1718--Portraits
- Great Swamp Fight, Southport, Conn., 1637
- Indians of North America
- King Philip's War, 1675-1676
- Philip, Sachem of the Wamponoags, d. 1676
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