Philip, an Indian chief whose father had been a staunch friend of the Pilgrim settlers, was himself friendly to the colonists, till in 1671 their encroachments provoked him to retaliation; after six years' fighting, in which many colonists perished and great massacres of Indians took place, he was defeated and slain, 1676.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Philemon and Baucis * Philip of Macedon