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Pocahontas by Simon de Passe. Pocahontas (1595–1617), a Native American, was the daughter of Chief Powhatan, founder of the Powhatan Confederacy.According to Mattaponi and Patawomeck tradition, Pocahontas was previously married to a Patawomeck weroance, Kocoum, who was murdered by Englishmen when Samuel Argall abducted her on April 13, 1613. [5]
The Colony of Virginia was a British colonial settlement in North America from 1606 to 1776. The first effort to create an English settlement in the area was chartered in 1584 and established in 1585; the resulting Roanoke Colony lasted for three attempts totaling six years. In 1590, the colony was abandoned.
The first Rappahannock County, Virginia — generally known as "Old Rappahannock" County — was founded in 1656 from part of Lancaster County, Virginia and became extinct in 1692 when it was divided to form Essex County and Richmond County, Virginia. [1]
Essex County is a county located in the Middle Peninsula in the U.S. state of Virginia; the peninsula is bordered by the Rappahannock River on the north and King and Queen County on the south. As of the 2020 census , the population was 10,599. [ 1 ]
Blandfield is a historic plantation house located at Caret, Essex County, Virginia.It was built about 1716–1720, and is a brick dwelling consisting of a two-story, central block with flanking two-story dependencies connected by one-story hyphens in the Georgian style.
John Lee (1724 – 1767), was a planter, clerk and legislator from the Lee family of Virginia. The eldest son of Henry Lee I settled in Essex County and served as the county clerk (1745-1761) before twice winning election as one of that county's representatives in the House of Burgesses. He married in 1749 and returned to his native ...
Archaeologists in Virginia are uncovering one of colonial America's most lavish displays of opulence: An ornamental garden where a wealthy politician and enslaved gardeners grew exotic plants from ...
John Buckner attended a Petsworth Parish vestry meeting on December 7, 1694, but missed the meeting of October 7, 1695. [16] Buckner died before February 10, 1695/6, when an inventory of his estate in Essex County (including eight slaves) was filed, showing that he owned property in that county as well as Gloucester.