Infobox Ethnic group group Appomattoc image Extinct as tribe population 400 in 1608 estimate regions ... , Chickahominy , and other Algonquian peoples The Appomattoc also spelled Appamatuck , Apamatic ... Chesterfield and Dinwiddie County, VA Dinwiddie Counties in present day southeast Virginia . The Appomattoc ... then known as Tenakomakah , present day Tidewater Virginia . According to William Strachey , the Appomattoc ... royal line. History The Appomattoc first encountered England English explorers on May 8 ... , led the village. Despite welcoming the English, some Appomattoc warriors took part in the sporadic .... John Smith explorer John Smith saw the weroansqua of Appomattoc again at Werowocomoco the main ... to serve him water, turkey and flatbread. Desperate for corn, Smith and Ralph Waldo visited the Appomattoc ... in the First Anglo Powhatan War by 1610. Around Christmas 1611, in reprisal for an Appomattoc ... them again in 1627. In 1635 the Appomattoc were driven from the upper Swift Creek Valley by Captain ..., including the Appomattoc, individually became tributary to the King of England, rather than to the former Pamunkey Emperor. The Appomattoc by then were located mainly at Ronhorak or Rohowicke modern ... River Virginia James River west of where Richmond, Virginia Richmond is now . The Appomattoc and other ... English westward exploration. In 1650, an Appomattoc guide called Pyancha took a party led by Abraham ... A History of Monroe County, West Virginia by Oren Frederic Morton p. 19 ref A 1669 census shows that the Appomattoc ... . Settlers destroyed the Appomattoc village during Bacon s Rebellion in 1676. The nearby Matoaca, Virginia ... land at Ronhorak in 1680, indicating some further retreat of the Appomattoc from their lands. Although ... north. But, the colonial legislature took 15 years until it abolished Indian slavery in 1691. As the Appomattoc ... s People , p. 109 ref In 1705, Robert Beverley, Jr. noted that the Appomattoc consisted of no more ... Category Pre state history of Virginia fr Appamattocs hr Appomattoc sh Appomattoc ... more details
For the fort on the site of present day Wheeling, West Virginia, see Fort Henry West Virginia . Fort Henry was an England English frontier fort in 17th century Virginia Colony colonial Virginia near the falls of the Appomattox River . Its exact location has been debated, but the most popular one marked by Virginia Historical Marker QA 6 is on a bluff about four blocks north of the corner of W. Washington and N. South Streets in modern day Petersburg, Virginia . Fort Henry was built in 1645 by order of the House of Burgesses . It marked the 1646 treaty frontier between the white settlers and the Native Americans following the Second Anglo Powhatan War . It was situated near the Appomattoc Indian tribe. It was the only point in Virginia where Indians could be authorized to cross eastward into white territory, or whites westward into Indian territory, from 1646 until around 1691. An earlier, smaller fort also known as Fort Henry , with a garrison of 15, had been erected in 1610 by Thomas Gates governor Thomas Gates as part of a series of fortifications within modern Hampton, Virginia this was defunct by the time the fort on the Appomattox was built. See also Abraham Wood 1614 82 Category British forts in the United States Henry Category Colonial forts in Virginia Henry Virginia struct stub ... more details
, both sides now found themselves at war. That fall, a party of Englishmen was ambushed at Appomattoc ..., Dale and his men seized the Appomattoc town at the mouth of their river, and quickly palisaded ... the lands of the Weyanoke, Appomattoc, Arrohattoc, and Powhatan proper. Two James river tribes, the Arrohattoc ... many in revenge for the massacre. They then attacked the Chickahominy, the Powhatan proper, the Appomattoc ..., and Powhatan proper and south of the James, against the Appomattoc, Weyanoke, Warraskoyak, and Nansemond ..., northwesterly to the Appomattoc village beside Fort Henry, and continuing in the same direction to the Monacan ... more details
, Virginia Weyanoke , Appomattoc , Arrohattoc and Powhatan territory, a combined force of 400 Paspahegh, Quiockahannock, Weyanoke, Appomattoc and Chiskiack assault the fort. They withdraw upon receiving ... more details
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