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  2. Nansemond County, Virginia - Wikipedia

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    Nansemond County, Virginia. Coordinates: 36.739323°N 76.609379°W. 1903 Map depicting Nansemond County (1646–1972) and other "lost counties" of Virginia. Nansemond is an extinct jurisdiction that was located south of the James River in Virginia Colony and in the Commonwealth of Virginia (after statehood) in the United States, from 1646 until ...

  3. Nansemond - Wikipedia

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    Nansemond. The Nansemond are the Indigenous people of the Nansemond River, a 20-mile-long tributary of the James River in Virginia. Nansemond people lived in settlements on both sides of the Nansemond River where they fished (with the name "Nansemond" meaning "fishing point" in Algonquian), harvested oysters, hunted, and farmed in fertile soil.

  4. Holland, Virginia - Wikipedia

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    Holland, Virginia. Coordinates: 36°40′53″N 76°46′49″W. Holland, Virginia was an incorporated town in the southwestern section of Nansemond County, Virginia. [1] Since 1974, it has been a community in the independent city of Suffolk, Virginia following a political consolidation which formed Virginia's largest city in geographic area.

  5. Whitfield family of the United States - Wikipedia

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    The Whitfield family was a prominent American political family of the Southern states. The Whitfields formed the American branch of the British Whitfield family - having descended from the British aristocracy, particularly the Earls of Kilmorey and having established colonial residency under Sir. Thomas Whitfield, whom headed East India Trading ...

  6. History of Suffolk, Virginia - Wikipedia

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    The area around Suffolk, Virginia, which is now an independent city in the Hampton Roads region in the southeastern part of the state, was originally inhabited by Native Americans. At the time of European contact, the Nansemond people lived along the river later known by the same name. The area was first explored by Jamestown colonists led by ...

  7. Chickahominy people - Wikipedia

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    Chickahominy people. The Chickahominy are a federally recognized tribe of Virginian Native Americans [1] who primarily live in Charles City County, located along the James River midway between Richmond and Williamsburg in the Commonwealth of Virginia. This area of the Tidewater is not far from where they were living in 1600, before the arrival ...

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