The Wampanoag would eventually go on to record, in their own language, everything from deeds to wills to contracts and letters containing the conditions under which they lived as well as personal letters. Hundreds of such documents survive today. The Wampanoag would later use these same documents to reclaim their language. During this same time period the establishments of 'praying towns' was at its height. Natick was established as a praying town with a land donation from John Speen, a Nipmuc man, to John Eliot. The formation of 'Grammar schools' were established where children and adults would go after religious instruction in order to learn English grammar. Mashpees were also living in some praying towns off Cape as can be seen by reading the sample conversations contained within these grammars. The establishment of praying towns offered protection to Wampanoag in that the English took the position that if an Indian were a convert to Christianity s/he was saved, no longer heathen, now had a soul, and hence not a threat.

1675 King Philip's War begins. While citizens of tribes from the Cape would fight in this war, the Mashpee Wampanoag, as well as the other tribes on Cape Cod and the islands of Martha's Vineyard