Lynda Richardson To the english voyagers who waded ashore at the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay on a balmy April day in 1607 ... the Indians proved deadly. As grim as the first year was at Jamestown ...

In December 1607, six months after the founding of the English settlement of Jamestown, Capt. John Smith was captured by a relative of Powhatan, the leader of a chiefdom based in what is now eastern ...

John Smith and Chief Powhatan had historic encounters ... The chemical signature of the copper matched that traded by Jamestown settlers between 1607 and 1609. Other metal items and glass beads ...

In the year 1607, three English ships sailed from ... that would change the American continent forever. The Powhatan (Pow-a-tan) Indians of eastern Virginia were made up of around 30 towns ...

During the summer and fall of 1607, illness had wiped out approximately half of the original Jamestown settlers. During this time, the Powhatan people, a confederacy of more than 30 Indigenous ...