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Rogers had just returned from England, where he had published A Concise Account of North America. He also had witnessed his stage play, a drama based on Pontiac’s efforts against the British called Ponteach, or, The Savages of America, be both performed and published. In A Concise Account, Rogers describes his friendship with Pontiac (spelled “Ponteack”), including the protection and assistance that Pontiac provided to Rogers and his military detachment in 1760 prior to Pontiac’s war against the British.

8 Rogers surely would have informed Pontiac of these literary tributes to his former friend and adversary. Thomas Morris Continuing to Fort Niagara, Pontiac had a reunion with Thomas Morris, who had become the fort’s commander. Morris, like Rogers, paid high tribute to Pontiac in print. In The Journal of Captain Thomas Morris, which he wrote in 1764 and published in 1791 within Miscellanies in Prose and Verse, Morris also perceived Pontiac as first among chiefs, with “a more extensive power than ever was known among that people; for every chief used to command his own tribe: but eighteen nations, by French intrigue, had been brought to unite, and chuse this man for their commander.

Church had one of his Indian allies behead Philip and quarter him, the standard English punishment for treason. Before carrying out his orders, the man noted that Philip had been a great man who inspired much fear in his enemies. Then Church gave Alderman Philip’s head and one of his hands. The head would be mounted on a pole at Plymouth, where it remained for nearly 20 years. The hand, marked by a gun blowing up at some earlier date when Philip was shooting, remained with Alderman, who earned money by exhibiting it in a pail of rum.

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