Born near Motaup (Mount Hope) in present-day Rhode Island, Massasoit (Ousameequan/Yellow Feather) was a member of the Wampanoag Pokanoket community, who became grand sachem of the Wampanoag people in the time of great epidemics that swept through most of Southern New England. He fathered at least five children: Wamsutta (Alexander), Metacom (Philip), Sonkanuhoo, Amie, and an unnamed daughter.
Weetamoe, the daughter of Corbitant, the sachem of the Pocasset Wampanoag, was most likely born in Mattapoiset. She became a sunksqua or leader of the Pocasset with a principal residence at Quequechan (present-day Fall River, Massachusetts).
Metacom, alias Pometacom, Philip, Philip Keitasscot, Wewasowannet, was a son of the Wampanoag sachem Massasoit, whose home village was at Mount Hope at Pokanoket. He married Wootonekanuske, daughter of the Pocasset sachem Corbitant and sister of Weetamoe, Philip’s sister-in-law. Metacom succeeded his brother Wamsutta as tribal leader in 1662 and that same year willingly signed a treaty declaring allegiance to Charles II.