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The Mattaponi River ultimately rises as four streams in Spotsylvania County, each of which is given a shorter piece of the Mattaponi's name: The Mat River and the Ta River join in Spotsylvania County to form the Matta River; The Po River and the Ni River join in Caroline County to form the Poni River; The Matta River and the Poni River join in ...
The Pamunkey River is formed by the confluence of the North Anna and South Anna rivers on the boundary of Hanover and Caroline counties, about 5 mi (8 km) northeast of the town of Ashland. It flows generally southeastwardly past the Pamunkey Indian Reservation to the town of West Point , where it meets the Mattaponi River to form the York River.
The three largest rivers in order of both discharge and watershed area are the Susquehanna River, the Potomac River, and the James River. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Other major rivers include the Rappahannock River , the Appomattox River (which flows into the lower James River), the York River (a combination of the Pamunkey and Mattaponi tributary rivers ...
The larger Mattaponi Indian Tribe lives in King William County on the reservation, which stretches along the borders of the Mattaponi River, near West Point, Virginia. [3] [4] The Mattaponi were one of six tribes inherited by Chief Powhatan in the late 16th century. [5] The tribe spoke an Algonquian language, like other members of the Powhatan ...
Mattaponi Indian Nation (a.k.a. Mattaponi Indian Reservation). Letter of Intent to Petition 04/04/1995. State-recognized 1983; in Banks of the Mattaponi River, King William County. The Mattaponi and Pamunkey have reservations based in colonial-era treaties ratified by the Commonwealth in 1658.
The Pamunkey Tribe is one of only two that retain the reservation lands assigned by the 1646 and 1677 treaties with the English colonial government. [9] Their reservation is located on some of their ancestral land on the Pamunkey River adjacent to present-day King William County. [9]
Furthermore, some Piscataway had settled across the Potomac river, and became known as the Mattaponi. They became embroiled in the Anglo-Powhatan Wars . By a 1668 treaty, western shore Algonquians agreed to be confined to two reservations: one on the Wicomico River ; the other, on those settlements that comprised a portion of the Piscataway ...
Mattapony Hundred's original borders were the Pocomoke River on the west and northwest, Corker's Creek on the northeast, Chincoteague Bay on the east, and Accomack County, Virginia on the south. During the colonial period, Mattapony Hundred was divided by the creation of Pitts Creek Hundred out of its western third.