In 1607, the English adventurer John Smith was captured by Opchanacanough, Powhatan's youngest brother. Crafts, dances, oral tradition and other almost-forgotten aspects of the Powhatan Indian culture were shared with other Virginians. "[11], "Powhatan's Mantle" is the name given to a cloak of deerskin, decorated with shell patterns and figures, held by the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. They were polytheistic in their faith, with the major deities being Okeus, responsible for the evil in the world, and Ahone, a god of good. Geni requires JavaScript! Powhatan's daughter, meanwhile married Englishman John Rolfe and converted to Christianity. Smith later wrote that Pocahontas saved his life during this time. A man of high status might wear a shirt-like garment made of fringed deerskin or a mantle of turkey feathers. The Second AngloPowhatan War that followed the 1644 incident ended in 1646, after Royal Governor of Virginia William Berkeley's forces captured Opechancanough, thought to be between 90 and 100 years old. On December 23, 2009, the bill was placed on the Senate Legislative Calendar under general orders, which is where the bill is currently. All state documents, including birth certificates, death certificates, marriage licenses, tax forms and land deeds, thus bear no record of Virginia Indians. According to research by the National Park Service, Powhatan "men were warriors and hunters, while women were gardeners and gatherers. His first attitude toward the whites was friendly although suspicious, but he soon became embittered by the exactions of the newcomers. The Powhatan (also spelled Powatan and Powhaten) spoke an Algonquian language. Murmring was born circa 1425, in Blue Ridge, Indian Land, future Virginia. For at his feet, they present whatsoever he commandeth, and at the least frowne of his browe, their greatest spirits will tremble with feare: and no marvell, for he is very terrible and tyrannous in punishing such as offend him. When Powhatan was about 15 years old King Phillip of Spain had him brought there to educate him, but he stayed there only a few years. He was the father of Pocahontas, who eventually converted to Christianity and married the English settler John Rolfe. English reprisals were equally violent, but there was no further fighting on a large scale until 1644, when Opechancanough led the last uprising, in which he was captured and murdered at Jamestown. Powhatan welcomed Smith with a feast and opened the town to him. As early as the era of John Smith, the individual tribes of this grouping were clearly recognized by the English as falling under the greater authority of the centralized power (whatever it is labeled) led by the chiefdom of Chief Powhatan (c. June 17, 1545 c. 1618), whose proper name was Wahunsenacawh or (in 17th century English spelling) Wahunsunacock. Prior to the wedding, Reverend Alexander Whitaker converted Pocahontas and renamed her "Rebecca" at her baptism. They figure therein flowers and fruits of sondry lively kinds, as also snakes, serpents.". By 1669, the population of Powhatan Indians in Tidewater Virginia had dropped to about 1,800 and by 1722, many of the tribes comprising the empire of Chief Powhatan were reported extinct. Complex chiefdom Likewise, perhaps more significant misnomers are the terms "Powhatan Confederacy" and "Powhatan Confederation." Please enable JavaScript in your browser's settings to use this part of Geni. William Strachey, another 17th-century author, recorded that Powhatans were "Generally of a cullour brown or rather tawny.". Alexei Stolyarov found himself in Wagner's sights over the weekend, when Russian media outlets discovered that Stolyarovmarried to the daughter of Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, the man . At this point, they began to strike out more forcefully against the tribes. Powhatan had inherited six tribes located not far from present-day Richmond. At a very young age, a boy was taught the use of the bow. Charles Dudley Warner, writing in the 19th century, but quoting extensively from John Smith's 17th-century writings, in his essay on Pocahontas states: "In 1618 died the great Powhatan, full of years and satiated with fighting and the savage delights of life. It had a population of about 14,000 people and covered about six thousand square miles. In 1665, the House of Burgesses passed stringent laws requiring the Powhatan to accept chiefs appointed by the governor. Husband of Unknown; Ohalasc, "queen" of the Quiyoughcohanocks; wife of Powhatan; Ponnoiske, of the Quiquoghcohannock; Amopotuskee, Shawano (Bear Clan) and 2 others; Mother of Pocahontas & Matachanna and Winganuske, of the Powhatan less The settlers had a difficult time until new supplies and leadership arrived in the summer of 1610. This accounts for the item alluded to, which is given verbatim et literatim. Rather than a recreational activity for the wealthy, as hunting was perceived by the English, Powhatans considered it a very serious business, an important way of securing food and clothing. Many variants are used in texts: Little is known of Powhatan's life before the arrival of English colonists in 1607. It appears that the State will be taking back all but 5 acres. Sources Much of the above was gleaned from notes by Pat M. Stevens (pat@patmstevens.com ), Leona M. Simonini (leesim@psln.com) Sources: Title: For the spelling of Wahunsonacock, Lee Miller's from her work "Roanoke," 2001 Title: Capt. A police chief said Tuesday he was "disturbed and embarrassed" after police tried to jail a 60-year-old disabled woman who begged them for help as she . Smith left Virginia for England in October 1609, never to return, because of an injury sustained in a gunpowder accident. According to various accounts, Pocahontas and John Rolfe did, in fact, fall in love with each otherit was a consensual relationship. After Bacon's Rebellion in 1676, the colony enslaved Indians for control. To appease him, he was given a crown, and a coronation ceremony was formally performed by Christopher Newport in 1609. The undisputed ruler of Tidewater Virginia was Wahunsonacock, usually referred to by this title as "Powhatan." They cultivated corn, fished, and hunted. Finally, in 1646 and 1647, treaties were made with Opechancanough's successor which severely restricted the Powhatan people's territory and confined them to small reservations. Leona says: (quoting from NJ Floyd's work)(more in Notes elsewhere): "The writer, feeling confident that the original tradition was correct, made an exhaustive search for information on that any many similar matters, and finally found, in the old library of the Maryland Historical Society, an item of three lines in a fragment of Jamestown records covering eleven years-- 1630 to 1641--which furnished in a positive and indisputable form the proof sought. Their son Thomas Rolfe was the ancestor of many Virginians; thus, many of the First Families of Virginia have both English and Virginia Indian ancestry. Truman Adkins, Fieldale, Henry Co., Virginia". Smith recounted in 1624 that Pocahontas (whose given name was Matoaka), one of Powhatan's daughters, kept her father from executing him. Chief Powhatan was the chief of the Algonquian Indian Tribe. Powhatan's central village, Werowocomoco, is believed to have been located in Gloucester County, Virginia. Chief of the Algonquian Indians in the Tidewater region of Virginia. He ably countered their actions, but numbers and weaponry were not on Powhatan's side for long. The better sort use large mantels of deare skins not much different from the Irish mantels." In 1622 and 1644 he attacked the English to force them from Powhatan territories. Although the specific situs of his home village is unknown, in modern times, the Powhatan Hill neighborhood in the East End portion of the modern-day city of Richmond, Virginia is thought by many to be in the general vicinity of the original village. The Powhatan lived east of the fall line in Tidewater Virginia. Father Chief Algonkian Powhatan Winanuske. The Powhatan Renape are presently struggling to retain their lease of >250 acres in New Jersey. The territory Powhatan controlled was called Tsenacommacah, or Tenakomakah. After the harvest, he also allowed food to be delivered, which helped keep the struggling colonists alive. Chief passed away on month day 1645, at age 100 at death place. The Virginia Company instructed the settlers to wage a total war against the Powhatan people, doing whatever it took to subdue them utterly. Over time, this and other revisions to the knowledge and information available about the Powhatan peoples native to Virginia will undoubtedly be made as research work at Werowocomoco and elsewhere continues in the 21st century. He had several wives and many children, however Pocahontas was his favorite daughter. After John Smith became president of the colony, he sent a force under Captain Martin to occupy an island in Nansemond territory and drive the inhabitants away. Probably the most important North American Indian relic to survive anywhere in the world is the "robe of the King of Virginia," or, as the 1656 Tradescant catalogue notes: "Pohatan, King of Virginia's habit all embroidered with shells, or Roanoke." Powhatan settlements were concentrated along the rivers, which provided both food and transportation; the folk who inhabited them spoke a now-extinct form of Algonquian, a language which was common with many native peoples from present-day New York south to Florida. His true loyalty evidently remained with the colonists and he was made a commander of James Fort on the Chickahominy after the next war. The actual term "Renape" is a common Algonquian word mean "true humans", as in the name Lenape (Lenni Lenape) the native inhabitants of the land that is present-day New Jersey and Pennsylvania. In his famous work Notes on the State of Virginia (178182), Thomas Jefferson estimated that the Powhatan Confederacy occupied about 8,000 square miles (20,000 km2) of territory, with a population of about 8,000 people, of whom 2400 were warriors. (ed. In his History and Present State of Virginia (1705), colonist Robert Beverley opined that Powhatan Indian "women are generally beautiful, possessing an uncommon delicacy of shape and features." The Powhatan Confederacy stretched from the Potomac river south along the Virginia coast into upper North Carolina, and west to the fall line of the rivers. The hair of a married women was worn long and plaited in the back; a young girl had her head on the front and sides shaven close, with the rest of the hair growing long and braided down the back. The family tree for Chief Powhatan should not be considered exhaustive or authoritative. Although he was raised an Englishman, he did honor his Native American heritage and even visited his uncle, Opechancanough, along with his aunt, Cleopatra upon returning to Jamestown. The attack, launched on April 17, 1644, resulted in the death of hundreds of colonists, but, like the attempt made 22 years earlier, did not achieve its objective. He was succeeded as Weroance by Necotowance, and later by Totopotomoi and by his daughter Cockacoeske. His first attitude toward the whites was friendly although suspicious, but he soon became embittered by the exactions of the newcomers. After Chief Powhatan's death in 1618, hostilities with colonists escalated under the chiefdom of his brother, Opechancanough, who sought in vain to drive off the encroaching English. Meanwhile, the English settlers continued to encroach on Powhatan territory. Powhatan(c.1547 - c. 1618), whose proper name was Wahunsenacawh(alternately spelled Wahunsenacah, Wahunsunacockor Wahunsonacock), was the leader of the Powhatan, an alliance of Algonquian-speaking Native Americans living in Tsenacommacah, in the Tidewater regionof Virginiaat the time when English settlers landed at Jamestownin 1607. He has one daughter, Pocahontas. Smith recounted in 1624 that Pocahontas (whose given name was Matoaka), one of Powhatan's daughters, kept her father from executing him. No other Powhatan Indian was recorded as using the name Mangopeesomon. Opitchapan, Powhatan's brother, served briefly as chief, and then retired in favor of Opechancanough, the powerful and aggressive werowance whose land centered around present-day West Point. The House Committee on Natural Resources recommended the bill be considered by the US House of Representatives at the end of April, the House approved the bill on June 3, 2009. Africans and whites worked and lived together; some natives also intermarried with them. Although Rolfe was raised as an Englishman, he did honor his Native American heritage and even visited his uncle, Opchanacanough, along with his aunt, Cleopatra upon returning to Jamestown. The skirt was the ubiquitous garment for women; those of higher-status swathed themselves in fringed deerskin. What he commandeth they dare not disobey in the least thing. However, Powhatan did not meet all of the colonists' demands, so Pocahontas remained in captivity. A brief period of peace came only after the capture of Pocahontas, her baptism, and her marriage to tobacco planter John Rolfe in 1614. Powhatan, whose actual name was Wahunsenacawh (also spelt Wahunsenacah, Wahunsunacock or Wahunsonacock), was a Native American leader, who was the "Chief" or "King" of the Powhatan, the conglomerate of Algonquian-speaking people residing in Tsenacommacah, in the Tidewater region of Virginia when English settlers arrived at Jamestown in 1607. The more than 50 acres (200,000 m2) residential settlement extends up to 1,000 feet (300 m) back from the river. Excavations there have revealed much about the early Powhatan people and their interaction with English colonists. Sometime between 1611 and 1614, he moved further north to Matchut, in present-day King William County on the north bank of the Pamunkey River, not far from where his brother Opechancanough ruled one of the member tribes at Youghtanund. Trying to secure her release, Powhatan returned a few English to the fort, along with some of the guns that his people had taken. After traveling to England with her husband, Pocahontas died there in 1617. Pocahontas was captured by the colonists in 1613. Tsenacommacah (pronounced /snkmk/ in English; "densely inhabited land"; also written Tscenocomoco, Tsenacomoco, Tenakomakah, Attanoughkomouck, and Attan-Akamik)[1] is the name given by the Powhatan people to their native homeland,[2] the area encompassing all of Tidewater Virginia and parts of the Eastern Shore. He vowed to do his best to help Pheu Thai's chief adviser on public . Many variants are used in texts: Little is known of Powhatan's life before the arrival of English colonists in 1607. Chief Powhatan was the father of Pocahontas and the ruler of the tribes that lived in the area where English colonists founded the Jamestown settlement in 1607. In 1607, the English colonists were introduced to Wahunsenacawh as Powhatan and understood this latter name to come from Powhatan's hometown near the falls of the James River near present-day Richmond, Virginia. The Commonwealth recognizes eight tribes in addition to the above two-- there are the Upper Mattaponi, Chickahominy, Eastern Chickahominy, Nandsemond, Rappahannock, all of whom are Powhatan, and the Monacan to the west of the area of Tsenacomaco. In fact, she married her father's bravest Patawomeck warrior, Kocoum after Captain Smith went home to England. Powhatan County and its county seat at Powhatan, Virginia were honorific names established years later, in locations west of the area populated by the Powhatan peoples. She died in Mar 1617 in Gravesend, Kent England, and was buried in St. George's Church, Gravesend, England. [10], In A True Relation of such Occurrences and Accidents of Note as Happened in Virginia (1608), Smith described Powhatan thus: He initially traded with the colonists before clashing with them. Another major center of the confederacy about 75 miles (121 km) to the east was called Werowocomoco. The future Chief Powhatan was born Wahunsenacawh (sometimes written as Wahunsunacock) sometime in the 1540s or 1550s. As a powerful leader, Powhatan followed two rules: "he who keeps his head higher than others ranks higher," and "he who puts other people in a vulnerable position, without altering his own stance, ranks higher." He inherited them from his father, whose name is unknown. The English initially mistook him for the paramount Powhatan (mamanatowick), who was in fact his father, Wahunsunacawh. 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Powhatan gained control of six tribes when he became chief. Him: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_Powhatan. Some time after his release, Smith, in The Powhatan (also spelled Powatan and Powhaten) is the name of a Virginia Indian confederation of tribes. However, the term Confederacy has become associated with the principal of states' rights versus the central U.S. government). I am afraid that there is a lot of fabrication of names in the Indian ancestry. Powhatan, alternately called "King" or "Chief" Powhatan by English settlers, led the main political and military power facing the early colonists, and was probably the older brother of Opechancanough, who led attacks against the settlers in 1622 and 1644. (The notes are paraphrased from Ashmolean Museum notes, unless they are quotes.). With Powhatan's own conquests, the empire included, among some 30 peoples, the Pamunkey, Mattapony, Chickahominy, and others likewise commemorated in the names of the streams and rivers of E Virginia. Huber, Margaret Williamson (January 12, 2011). In the 1960s and 1970s, she may have . Some researchers have asserted that a mock execution was a ritual intended to adopt Smith into the tribe, but other modern writers dispute this interpretation. English reprisals were equally violent, but there was no further fighting on a large scale until 1644, when Opechancanough led the last uprising, in which he was captured and murdered at Jamestown. In 1990 there were about 800 Powhatan in the United States, most of them in E Virginia. Work since then has added to their belief that this is the location of Werowocomoco. The ruling chief and practically the founder of the Powhatan confederacy (q. v.) in Virginia at the period of the first English settlement. Rolfe's longtime friend, Reverend Richard Buck presided the wedding. Powhatan died soon after, in April 1618, in the territory that is now part of Virginia. and Barbara Bushs Amazing Love Story. Knoxville News Sentinel. I will continue our lineage and publish our Chocotah and Cherokee. In November 1609, Powhatan invited a group of colonists to his new settlement. That word is generally thought of as a grouping of entities each with greater individual power than the group when united. The surviving settlers' reaction to the Powhatan uprising was retaliation, and the English, better armed and organized than the Powhatans, set to with a vengeance. Powhatan, alternately called "King" or "Chief" Powahatan by the English, led the main political and military power facing the early colonists, was probably the older brother of Opechancanough, who led attacks against the English in 1622 and 1644. By 1607, he had added considerably to his domain which, at its peak, numbered over 30 tribes. 4 U.S. Presidents Who Won the Nobel Peace Prize, Your Privacy Choices: Opt Out of Sale/Targeted Ads, Name: Powhatan, Birth Country: United States. The capital village of "Powhatan" was believed to be in the present-day Powhatan Hill section of the eastern part of Richmond, Virginia, or perhaps nearby in a location which became part of Tree Hill Farm. Father of "Cleopatra", of the Powhatan; Tatacope Powhatan, Weroance of Quiyocohannock; wife of Necotowance; Secotin Sonacock, of the Powhatan; Pamouic Sonacock, of the Powhatan and 11 others; Unknown, of the Powhatan; Nantaquas, of the Powhatan; Parahunt, of the Powhatan; Taux, of the Powhatan; Po-Chins, of the Powhatan; Mehtafe, of the Powhatan; Tahacope, of the Powhatan; Metha, of the Powhatan; Matachanna, of the Powhatan; Pocahontas and Matachannu, of the Powhatan less With every change in location, the people used fire to clear new land. Birth 6 May 1474 - Powhatan, Powhatan, Virginia. That recognition process has proved difficult as it has been hampered by the lack of official records to verify heritage and by the historical misclassification of family members in the 1930s and 1940s, largely a result of Virginia's state policy of race classification on official documents. But in this research --- we have direct lineage to Powhatan Royalty. The original six constituent tribes in Wahunsunacock's group were: the Powhatan (proper), the Arrohateck, the Appamattuck, the Pamunkey, the Mattaponi, and the Chiskiack. They left more cleared land behind. Ponnoiske, don't have any children for her. All Rights Reserved. The improvements discovered during archaeological research at Werowocomoco have reinforced the paramount chiefdom of Chief Powhatan over the other tribes in the power hierarchy. Even though the English viewed the Powhatan Indian culture as savage and primitive, we can still utilize the facts and details presented by one group of people commenting on and describing another. It allegedly belonged to Powhatan, although the evidence is questionable. Powhatan (June 17, 1545 [citation needed] April 1618), whose proper name was Wahunsenacawh (alternately spelled Wahunsenacah, Wahunsunacock or Wahunsonacock), was the paramount chief of Tsenacommacah, an alliance of Algonquian-speaking Virginia Indians in the Tidewater region of Virginia at the time English settlers landed at Jamestown in 1607. Parents. The marriage of his daughter, Pocahontas, to a colonist led to another period of peace that was still in effect when Powhatan died in Virginia in April 1618. Powhatan craved the trade goods brought by the English, which would give him increased status, make his peoples' lives easier and also help him to expand his empire to the west. Last edited on 15 February 2023, at 15:21, Learn how and when to remove this template message, "Personal Narratives from the Virtual Jamestown Project, 15751705", she-philosopher.com: Gallery exhibit (Powhatan's map on deerskin mantle), "Powhatan, or Wah-Un-So-Na-Cook. After the Iroquois, traditional enemies of the confederacy, agreed to cease their attacks in the Treaty of Albany (1722), the tribes scattered, mixed with the settlers, and all semblance of the confederacy disappeared. As a follower of the eugenics movement and, by modern day standards, a white supremacist, Plecker falsely surmised that there were no true Virginia Indians remaining as years of intermarriage has diluted the race. Very little is known of his early life growing up in a Powhatan settlement. By the time Smith left Virginia in 1609, the fragile peace between colonists and Algonquians was already beginning to fray. In her wonderful work "Pocahontas," Grace Steele Woodward writes that Okeus was annually appeased from his evil with human sacrifice; "the priests would gather the entire Powhatan community in the woods, and after chanting their supplications around a great fire, would present two or three of the Powhatan children to the god. [14][15], Powhatan, detail of map published by English. Melchior Steinmoller 1548 - 1618 Pierre Gaudy 1548 - 1618 Tashapiathacho Powhatan 1548 - 1618 However, since Smith's 1608 and 1612 reports omitted this account, many historians have doubted its accuracy. The confusion persists in historic accounts. Each of the tribes within this organization had its own weroance (chief), but all paid tribute to Chief Powhatan. They also practiced a ritualistic torture, she notes, dismembering the living bodies of captives and tossing the pieces on a fire, or sometimes bashing the captive's head on a stone block with a mallet or club. Soon conflict led to the First Anglo-Powhatan War, and further English colonial settlement beyond Jamestown and into Powhatan's territory. The remains were relocated there by his brother, Opechancanough. Connect to the World Family Tree to find out, (now King William County), (now Virginia), The Powhatan Tribe, Chief Powhatan and Pocahontas, Werowance of the Powhatan, Father of Wahunsenacawh, http://mackhistory.com/genealogy/gp529.htm. As a member of a matrilineal society, Chief Powhatan inherited his position from his mother, not his father. Over his years of service, he conducted a campaign to reclassify all bi-racial and multi-racial individuals as black, believing such persons were fraudulently attempting to claim their race to be Indian or white. For over a decade, the English killed men and women, captured children and systematically razed villages, seizing or destroying crops. The Powhatan are said to have been driven N to Virginia by the Spanish, where their chief, Powhatan's father, subjugated five other Virginia tribes. . (bio by: Iola), Burial: Pamunkey Indian Reservation King William King William County Virginia, USA Plot: Next to the railroad tracks, Maintained by: Find A Grave Record added: Jun 01, 1999 Find A Grave Memorial# 5569, --------------------------------------------------------------. In November 1609, Captain John Ratcliffe was invited to Orapakes, Powhatan's new capital. The Mantle is certainly one of the earliest North American artifacts to have survived in a European collection. In addition to the ongoing conflicts with the ever-expanding English settlements and their inhabitants, the Powhatan suffered a high death rate due to infectious diseases, maladies introduced to North America by the Europeans to which the Native Americans of the United States had developed no natural immunities. We strive for accuracy and fairness.If you see something that doesn't look right,contact us! Part of David Morenus' Pocahontas site. was in Oxford in 1999, I found in the Ashmolean the following curious display in the Tradescant Room, Room Number 27, upstairs. (Part 1 of 2)", Powhatan's Mantle in the Ashmolean Museum, Appletons' Cyclopdia of American Biography, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Powhatan_(Native_American_leader)&oldid=1139519257. He was said to be a "tall, well-proportioned man with a sower looke, his head somewhat gray, his beard so thinne that it seemeth none at all, his age neare sixtie, of a very able and hardy body, to endure any labor."[13]. During the period, covered by the fragment, matters became so bad between the Whites and Indians, that Opechancanough was induced to agree upon a line being established which neither White nor Indian, excepting truce-bearers, should cross under penalty of being shot on sight. To finish the "coronation", several English had to lean on Powhatan's shoulders to get him low enough to place the crown on his head, as he was a tall man. Advisor to Chief Powhatan was Namontack. A Powhatan chief, born about 1545, died in 1644. The Powhatan was the father of Pocahontas and other children. Each one had its own chief, known as a werowance, but they also answered to Powhatan. It was common for black slaves to escape and join the surrounding Powhatan; white servants were also noted to have joined the Indians. The 104 Englishmen who landed at Jamestown on May 13, 1607 chose that settlement site partially because on-one else was presently occupying the small peninsula, an unhealthy, if highly defensible, area. Through his chiefdom, Powhatan obtained the following tribes known as The Powhatan Confederacy (Tsenacommacah): Accohannock Accomac Chesapeake Chickahominy Kiskiack (Chiskiack) Cuttatawomen Kecoughtan Moraughtacund (Morattico) Nandtaughta-cund Nansemond, Opiscopank (Piscataway) Paspahegh Piankatank Pissaseck Patawomeck (Potomac) Quiyoughcohannock Rap-pahannock (Tappahannock) Sekakawon (Secacawoni), Warraskoyack (Warrascocake/Warwick-squeak) Weanoc (Weyanock) Werowocomoco, Wiccocomico (Wiccomico). However, the colonists continued to explore and encroach upon Powhatan's land, which disrupted the truce. On the treacherous seizure of his favorite daughter, Pocahontas (q. v.), in 1613, he became openly hostile, but was happily converted for the time through her marriage to Rolfe. The mixture of natural and man-made rarities (of which only a fraction survives today) was typical of the age. Since the 1990s, the Powhatan Indian tribes which have state recognition, along with other Virginia Indian tribes which have state recognition, have been seeking federal recognition. Kostenlose Lieferung fr viele Artikel! Powhatan's people lived in villages, which could number as many as one hundred homes. Chief Powhatan was the chief of the Algonquian Indian Tribe. His tribe was located in the region between the James and York River in Virginia. Captain Christopher Newport led the first English exploration party up the James River in 1607, when he met Parahunt, weroance of the Powhatan proper.
