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In April 1704, the Nanzatico complained to the House of Burgesses that English settlers were encroaching onto their remaining enclave, on both sides of the river. These complaints were never acted upon by the Virginia Colony, and on August 30, a war party of ten Nanzatico men killed one of the
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and King George counties. The town of Nanzemond was recorded by 1654, and the towns of Warisquock and Ausaticon in 1655. The Portobacco town was south of the river, about where Smith's "king's house" was shown. The only surviving deed for a land sale by the tribe was signed by their
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The affiliated Portobacco / Rappahannock tribe were not deported at this time, and were noted by Robert Beverley in 1705 as living north of the river with five bowmen. The name Nanzatico means warrior chief.
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for both groups. In 1684, the Colony ordered the 70 total remaining Rappahannock to join with the Portobacco, for their protection against Seneca Iroquois raids. These groups were allied with the
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Attamahune in 1662. The Matchotic (Mattehatique) formed a section of them on the 1669 census. In that census, the Nanzatico counted fifty bowmen, and the Portobacco sixty. In 1680, the
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militia hunted down and captured 49 Nanzaticos and tried them for murder. 5 men were hanged for the murder, and all the other Nanzaticos over age 12 were sold into slavery in the
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under a 1665 law that held communities responsible for any murders of English settlers. Children were forced to work as servants for officials of the Virginia Colony.
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Gwenda Morgan, "Sold into Slavery in Retribution against the Nanziattico Indians," Virginia Cavalcade, 33 (Spring 1984):168-73.
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Archaeological sites on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia
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They occupied land on opposite sides of the Rappahannock in present-day
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encroaching settlers, John Rowley, and his family. A company of the
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National Register of Historic Places in King George County, Virginia
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by John Smith on 1608, represented on his map as a "king's house".
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Former National Register of Historic Places in Virginia
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History of the National Register of Historic Places
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Index

U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Index, Virginia
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King George County, Virginia
Portobagos
Patawomecks
Matchotics
Rappahannock tribe
Rappahannock River
Caroline
weroance
Treaty of Middle Plantation
Doeg tribe
Richmond County
West Indies
"National Register Information System"
National Register of Historic Places
National Park Service
"Nanzatico community"
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U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Virginia
Accomack
Albemarle
Alleghany
Amelia
Amherst
Appomattox

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