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Cockacoeske
Cockacoeske (also spelled ''Cockacoeskie'') (ca. 1640 – ca. 1686) was a 17th-century leader of the Pamunkey tribe in what is now the U.S. state of Virginia. During her thirty-year reign, she worked with the English colony of Virginia, trying to recapture the former power of past paramount chiefs and maintain peaceful unity among the several tribes under her leadership. She was the first of the tribal leaders to sign the Virginia-Indian Treaty of Middle Plantation. In 2004 Cockacoeske was honored as one of the Library of Virginia's "Virginia Women in History". Early life and rule The death of Opechancanough in 1646 led to the disintegration of the confederacy built by his brother Powhatan. Cockacoeske's husband Totopotomoi became leader in 1649, but English colonists in Virginia only referred to him the "king of the Pamunkeys," not "king of the Indians," as they had earlier paramount chiefs.Martha M. McCartney, "Cockacoeske, Queen of Pamunkey: Diplomat and Suzeraine." In G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Totopotomoi
Totopotomoi (c. 1615–1656) was a Native American leader from what is now Virginia. He served as the chief of Pamunkey and as ''werowance'' of the Powhatan Paramount Chiefdom for the term lasting from about 1649-1656, when he died in the Battle of Bloody Run. Name ''Totopotomoi'' is also spelled ''Totopotomoy'' and pronounced "To-to-POT-omy." English colonists of his time often spelled his name ''Totopotomy''. Totopotomy Creek in Hanover and Stafford counties memorializes his name. Personal life Totopotomoi was possibly the son but more likely the younger brother of the Necotowance. His exact parentage and date of birth are not known. Many assume he is the son of Necotowance because he succeeded him as chief. However, the Pamunkey and other tribes of Tidewater, Virginia were matrilineal societies. The right to become chief was passed down through the mother, not the father, and often from one brother to another, sons of the same mother. This is why Totopotomoi is believed t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Queen Betty
Betty, also known as Mrs Betty and Queen Betty, is believed to have been the name of the niece of Cockacoeske who succeeded her as Weroance, Weroansqua or chief of the Pamunkey tribe, a Native American tribes in Virginia, Native American tribe of Virginia, in the late 1600s to early 1700s. History On 1 July 1686, the Council of Virginia was informed of the death of Cockacoeske, ruler of the Pamunkey for 30 years: Though the new ruler is described as Cockakoeske's niece, her name is not given. The name "Ms. Betty Queen ye Queen" appears in a land transaction of 1702, and by 1708 "Queen Ann (Pamunkey chief), Queen Ann" is mentioned. Chapter four, by Martha W. McCartney for the National Park Service of the United ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Virginia Women's Monument
The Virginia Women's Monument is a state memorial in Richmond, Virginia commemorating the contributions of Virginia women to the history of the Commonwealth of Virginia and the United States of America. Located on the grounds of the Virginia State Capitol, the monument is officially titled Voices from the Garden: The Virginia Women's Monument and features life-sized bronze statues of eleven Virginia women placed in a small granite plaza. The monument was first proposed in 2009 and established by joint resolution of the Virginia General Assembly in 2010. An 18-member commission, along with input from the Library of Virginia and professors of women's history, selected the women to be honored with statues sculpted by StudioEIS in Brooklyn, New York. The granite plaza and Wall of Honor were opened in October 2018 and the monument was officially unveiled with the first seven completed statues on October 14, 2019. The seven women were Cockacoeske, chieftain of the Pamunkey tribe; ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John West (son Of Cockacoeske)
Colonel John West, Jr. of West Point, Virginia (1632–1691) was a planter, commander of the New Kent Militia in the Colony of Virginia, and represented the county in the House of Burgesses, as would his sons. Early and family life John West was born on June 6, 1632 at Bellfield Plantation, York River, Virginia. He was the child of Captain John West, Virginia Governor and his wife Anne Percy, daughter of George Percy and Anne Floyd. His father received an extra land grant because John was the first child of English parents born in the York River area. Career West farmed using enslaved labor. In 1659, West's father died, the last of the four sons of Thomas West, 2nd Baron De La Warr who came to Virginia. In recognition of the family's contributions to the colonial enterprise, the Virginia Assembly passed the following Act: John West also served in the militia from 1652 to 1673, ending with the rank of lieutenant colonel. He supported Governor Berkeley during Bacon's Rebel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Opechancanough
Opechancanough (; 1554–1646)Rountree, Helen C. Pocahontas, Powhatan, ''Opechancanough: Three Indian Lives Changed by Jamestown.'' University of Virginia Press: Charlottesville, 2005 was paramount chief of the Tsenacommacah, Powhatan Confederacy in present-day Virginia from 1618 until his death. He had been a leader in the confederacy formed by his older brother Powhatan (Native American leader), Powhatan, from whom he inherited the paramountcy. Opechancanough led the Powhatan in the second and third Anglo-Powhatan Wars, including the Indian massacre of 1622. In 1646, the aged Opechancanough was captured by British colonization of the Americas, English colonists and taken to Jamestown, Virginia, Jamestown, where he was killed by a settler assigned to guard him. Name The name Opechancanough meant "He whose Soul is White" in the Algonquian languages, Algonquian Powhatan language. It was likely derived from a Powhatan original phonemically spelled as /a·pečehčakeno·w/ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nathaniel Bacon (colonist)
Nathaniel Bacon (January 2, 1647October 26, 1676) was a colonist of the Virginia Colony, famous as the instigator of Bacon's Rebellion of 1676, which collapsed when Bacon died from dysentery. Early life and education Bacon was born on January 2, 1647, in Friston Hall in Suffolk, England, to influential landowner parents Thomas Bacon and his wife Elizabeth (daughter of Sir Robert Brooke of Cockfield Hall, Yoxford and his wife Elizabeth). Nathaniel was his father's only son, and had one full sister, and a half-sister by his father's second wife Martha (Reade), his natural mother having died in 1649 when he was two years old. He was educated at the University of Cambridge, where he was admitted as a Fellow-Commoner at St Catharine's College in 1661. He travelled around Europe (Germany, Italy, Switzerland, France, Netherlands) in 1663–1664 with the celebrated naturalist John Ray and fellow pupils Francis Willughby and Philip Skippon. At the end of April 1664, in Naples, R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chickahominy People
The Chickahominy are a federally recognized tribe of Virginian Native Americans who primarily live in Charles City County, located along the James River midway between Richmond and Williamsburg in the Commonwealth of Virginia. This area of the Tidewater is not far from where they were living in 1600, before the arrival of colonists from England.Wood, Karenne (editor). ''Virginia Indian Heritage Trail,'' Charlottesville, VA: Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, 2007. They were officially recognized by the state in 1983 and by the federal government in January 2018. The Eastern Chickahominy split from the main tribe in 1983 and were recognized as a separate tribe by the state that year, and by the federal government in January 2018. They are based in [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Treaty Of Middle Plantation
The Treaty of 1677 (also known as the Treaty Between Virginia And The Indians 1677 or Treaty of Middle Plantation) was signed in Virginia on May 28, 1677, between the English Crown and representatives from various Virginia Native American tribes including the Nottoway, the Appomattoc, the Wayonaoake, the Nansemond, the Nanzatico, the Monacan, the Saponi, and the Meherrin following the end of Bacon's Rebellion. The treaty designated those that signed as "tributary tribes", which signified that they were guaranteed control over their traditional homelands, hunting and fishing rights, the right to keep and bear arms, and other rights so long as they maintained their loyalty towards the English Crown. The twenty-one articles of the treaty were confirmed when the English sent gifts to the chiefs along with various badges of authority. The Queen of Pamunkey, known as Cockacoeske to the English, received a red velvet cap which was fastened with a silver frontlet and silver chains. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bacon's Rebellion
Bacon's Rebellion was an armed rebellion held by Colony of Virginia, Virginia settlers that took place from 1676 to 1677. It was led by Nathaniel Bacon (Virginia colonist), Nathaniel Bacon against List of colonial governors of Virginia, Colonial Governor William Berkeley (governor), William Berkeley, after Berkeley refused Bacon's request to drive Native Americans out of Virginia. Thousands of Virginians from all Social class in the United States, classes (including those in Indentured servitude in British America, indentured servitude) and Race and ethnicity in the United States, races rose up in arms against Berkeley, chasing him from Jamestown, Virginia, Jamestown and ultimately torching the settlement. The rebellion was first suppressed by a few armed merchant ships from London whose captains sided with Berkeley and the Loyalism, loyalists. Government forces arrived soon after and spent several years defeating pockets of resistance and reforming the colonial government to b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Powhatan
The Powhatan people (; also spelled Powatan) may refer to any of the indigenous Algonquian people that are traditionally from eastern Virginia. All of the Powhatan groups descend from the Powhatan Confederacy. In some instances, The Powhatan may refer to one of the leaders of the people. This is most commonly the case in historical records from English colonial accounts.Waugaman, Sandra F. and Danielle Moretti-Langholtz, Ph.D. ''We're Still Here: Contemporary Virginia Indians Tell Their Stories''. Richmond: Palari Publishing, 2006 (revised edition). The Powhatans have also been known as Virginia Algonquians, as the Powhatan language is an eastern- Algonquian language, also known as Virginia Algonquian. It is estimated that there were about 14,000–21,000 Powhatan people in eastern Virginia, when English colonists established Jamestown in 1607. In the late 16th and early 17th centuries, a ''mamanatowick'' (paramount chief) named Wahunsenacawh created an organization by affi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rappahannock People
The Rappahannock are a federally recognized tribe in Virginia and one of the eleven state-recognized tribes. They are made up of descendants of several small Algonquian-speaking tribes who merged in the late 17th century. In January 2018, they were one of six Virginia tribes to gain federal recognition by passage of the Thomasina E. Jordan Indian Tribes of Virginia Federal Recognition Act of 2017. History 17th century In 1607, the Rappahannock were the dominant tribe of the Rappahannock River valley, maintaining thirteen villages along the north and south banks of the river named after them. Their capital town was ''Topahanocke'' (or Tappahannock). They were a peripheral group among the Algonquian-speaking tribes of the Powhatan Confederacy. In spring of that year, when news spread of explorers sailing on the James River, their ''weroance'' took a party and rushed there. They stayed with their cousins, the Quiockohannock, and sent word requesting audience with the newcomers. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Virginia Women In History
Virginia Women in History was an annual program sponsored by the Library of Virginia that honored Virginia women, living and dead, for their contributions to their community, region, state, and nation. The program began in 2000 under the aegis of the Virginia Foundation for Women and Delta Kappa Gamma Society International; from 2006 to 2020 it was administered by the Library of Virginia. In 2021, it was replaced by the Strong Men and Women in Virginia History program. 2000 honorees * Ella Graham Agnew (1871–1958), Blacksburg, educator and social worker * Mary Julia Baldwin (1829–1897), Staunton, educator * Margaret Brent (c. 1601 – c. 1671), Stafford County, planter * Willa Cather (1873–1947), Frederick County, writer * Jennie Dean (1848–1913), Manassas, educator * Sarah Lee Fain (1888–1962), Norfolk, legislator * Ellen Glasgow (1873–1945), Richmond, author * Dolley Madison (1768–1849), Orange County, First Lady * Pocahontas (c. 1596–1617), Jamestown * C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
