After an imprisonment of twelve months, he fled to Middleborough, in Holland, and died there about 1589.
Thus for some days he continued very successfully harassing the Indians in the vicinity of the Middleborough Ponds.
There was a place in Middleborough, and another in Raynham, where Massasoit spent some parts of the year, probably the summer.
So for a long season I must enjoy only a low slanting gleam in my mind's eye from the Middleborough ponds far away.
It was within the limits of the present town of Middleborough.
