Spanish colonization literature, Powhatan geographies, and English perceptions of Tsenacommacah/Virginia

From: The Journal of Southern History | Date: May 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

IN 1612 VIRGINIA COLONIST WILLIAM STRACHEY EXPLAINED THAT HIS Historie of Travell into Virginia Britania depicted in greatest detail that part of the Virginia Company's claims where the English had concentrated their colonizing activities. This area, as Strachey described it, was roughly contiguo us with the "severall territoryes and provinces which are in chief commaunded by their great king Powhatan, . . . comprehended under the denomynation of Tsenacommacoh, of which we may the more by experyence speak being the place wherein our abode and habitation hath now well neere sixe yeares ...

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