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Robins refused to use as human sacrifices, but instead sent back, although Daniel Cugley, who had married the widowed Hannah Tyng, set them to work on his plantation, which caused his arrest and being sent to
Jamestown for trial. Furthermore, when a quarrelsome settler pointed a gun at Debedeavon, the Accawmacke shire Court (Capt. Edmun Scarburgh, Justice of the Peace) ordered "that for any future tyme, noe Englishman shall disturb, molest, or act anything ag'st the sd Indyan King to hindr him in his huntinge, as they will answer the same.
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noted that the “Indians of
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In his later years, Debedeavon devoted himself to the pleasures of hunting, leaving much of the business of government to his brother and Prime
Minister, Kiptopeke. Indeed, when some prowling Indians up the coast killed an Englishman and boy, Debedeavon sent peace ambassadors, which Col. Obedience
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eventually led Savage to be sent to the relatively safer
Eastern Shore, where Debedeavon gave him a large tract of land between Cheriton Creek and King's Creek that became known as Savage's Neck, under his son John Savage (1624-1667; Thomas having married emigrant Hannah Tyng in 1621). Indeed,
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Warrior And A Loyal Friend To The Early Settlers Of The Eastern Shore." Also, Virginia recently erected a historical marker across the street from the Debedeavon monument and old courthouse, remembering the Gingakin
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peace, 1677, pays three Indian arrows for their land, and twenty beaver skins for protection every year." He continued to say, they had eight towns in
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In his will dated April 22, 1657, recorded at the county courthouse, Debedeavon left the kingdom to his daughter, Nandua, cautioning her as "Empress" to maintain the good will of their
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Powhaton's tribe was plotting for a general uprising against Jamestown and the other colonists. The Governor was incredulous but went to all the plantations and held musters despite
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for a Native boy, Nemotacke, as something like a cultural exchange student. Powhatan adopted Savage, who became an interpreter between the two cultures, but the jealousy of
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