Powhatan

Wahunsunacock, better known as Powhatan, is believed to have been born in this vicinity, where a nearby village also bore the name Powhatan. By the time the English arrived in 1607, he was acknowledged as the paramount chief of about 30 districts with more than 150 villages. His dominions, called Tsenacomoco, stretched approximately to the Potomac River in the north and to the fall line of the rivers to the west, and from just south of the James River eastward to the Atlantic Ocean. Powhatan played a leading role in early relations between the English and the Virginia Indians and was the father of Pocahontas. He died in April 1618.

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