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Debdeavon was known as the Laughing King of Accomacke, Emperor of the Easterne Shoare, and King of the Great Nussawattocks. A gallant warrior and a loyal friend to the early settlers of the Eastern Shore, his timely warning to the colonists of an intended uprising in 1621 saved them from annihilation in the massacre of 1622.
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