Plymouth had lost the interpreter it had depended on from the beginning.

Tisquantum had survived the Atlantic and the epidemic that killed his community only to die during a colonial journey a few years later.

The man who became permanently associated with Plymouth did not live to see what Plymouth would become.

He never saw the massive English migration of the 1630s.

He never saw the later collapse of the alliance between the Wampanoag and English colonies.

He never saw the war that English history would call King Philip’s War.

His story ends before the consequences of the relationship he helped build became fully visible.

What Happened After Tisquantum Died

The alliance between Ousamequin and Plymouth survived Tisquantum’s death, but the larger relationship between Native peoples and English settlers changed dramatically over the following decades.

English migration increased.