Roger Williams fled the Massachusetts Bay Colony to avoid arrest and deportation and stayed the winter of 1635-36 with Massasoit, who gave him land along the Seekonk River the following spring.
Statues of Massasoit by sculptor Cyrus E. Dallin stand near Plymouth Rock, outside the Utah State Capitol building, on the campus of Brigham Young University, at the Springville Museum of Art in Springville, Utah, and in Kansas City, Missouri at the corner of Main Street and Emanuel Cleaver II Blvd.