-
Siouan tribes in the late 17th
century and
became collectively known as the
Nahyssan. By 1740, they had
largely left
Virginia and
migrated north to s**** protection...
- 1670, John
Lederer visited what he
described as "Sapon, a
Village of the
Nahyssans," who were the Saponi.
Lederer wrote about the Saponi: "The
nation is...
-
Richmond in 1656,
after tensions arose from an
influx of
Manahoacs and
Nahyssans from the North. Nonetheless, the
James Falls area saw more
White settlement...
- the
Rechahecrians or Rickahockans, as well as the
Siouan Manahoac and
Nahyssan,
broke through the
frontier and
settled near the
Falls of the
James River...
- 20th-century
ethnologist Swanton considers this last to be a
Nahyssan village.
Around 1675 the
Nahyssan settled on an
island at the
confluence of the Stanton...
- the "Richahecrians",
while James Lederer said they were "****cks and
Nahyssans". The
colonists in
nearby Richmond were
uneasy with the
proximity of a...
- and
became known as the
Richahecrian when they
fought along side the
Nahyssans and Manahoac,
against the
Virginia colonialists and Pamunkey, at the Battle...
- Tuscarora,
formerly North Carolina, Virginia,
currently New York
Tutelo (
Nahyssan),
Virginia Unquachog (Poospatuck), Long Island, New York
Wabanaki Confederacy...
-
distinguished into the
several nations of ****c,
Nuntaneuck alias Nuntaly,
Nahyssan, Sapon, Managog, Mangoack,
Akernatatzy and
Monakin etc." Further, "The...
- upon the
formation of Maryland. 1656
Battle of
Bloody Run -- ****cks,
Nahyssans and Rehecrechians,
recently defeated by the Five
Nations in the Beaver...
