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Weroance[pronunciation?] is an
Algonquian word
meaning leader or
commander among the
Powhatan confederacy of the
Virginia coast and
Chesapeake Bay region...
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Pamunkey weroance, Totopotomoi,
received 5,000
acres (20 km2) for his
tribe along both
sides of the
upper Pamunkey River, and the
Kiskiack weroance, Ossakican...
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audience with the newcomers. The
weroance and
explorers met on May 4.
George Percy wrote a
vivid description of the
weroance,
whose body was
painted crimson...
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Wahunsenacawh The Powhatan. Each of the
tribes within the
confederacy was led by a
weroance (leader, commander), all of whom paid
tribute to the Powhatan.
After Wahunsenacawh...
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Captain Ralph Hamor, but she was not in line to
inherit a
position as a
weroance, sub-chief, or
mamanatowick (paramount chief). Instead, Powhatan's brothers...
- Powhaten, Pohetan, Powhattan,
Poughwaton The
description (meaning chief?):
weroance, weeroance, wyrounce, wyrounnces, werowance, wyroance,
werowans The name:...
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meanly exposed him as a show to my people." He was
succeeded as
Weroance first by Nectowance, then by Totopotomoi, then by ****acoeske, Totopotomoi's...
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their head
weroance (tribal chief). By
spring 1609, the
local Paspahegh tribe had
resumed raiding the fort at Jamestown. However,
their weroance Wowinchopunk...
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occupied by the
Warraskoyak tribe of the
Powhatan Confederacy,
under their weroance, Tackinekintaco. In
December 1608,
Captain John
Smith left his page Samuel...
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Patawomeck tradition,
Pocahontas was
previously married to a
Patawomeck weroance, Kocoum, who was
murdered by
Englishmen when
Samuel Argall abducted her...
