But warfare did not simply stop everywhere on the same day.

In northern New England, conflicts continued.

Native communities and English settlers remained involved in further wars and shifting alliances.

The wider pattern of conflict between Native nations, French interests, and English colonies continued into the following decades.

That is why it is better to think of Metacom’s death as the collapse of the major southern New England resistance rather than the end of every Indigenous-English conflict in the region.

The political consequences, however, were immediate.