Massawomeck: Raiders and Traders Into the Chesapeake Bay in the Seventeenth Century Transactions, American Philosophical Society (V

by James F. Pendergast

The Massawomeck are but one of several hinterland Indian groups which having made a brief, frequently violent, appearance during the 17th century, disappear. Eyewitness & contemporary accounts of the Massawomeck, which are confined to the period 1607-1634, are closely associated with the founding of the English Jamestown & Maryland colonies in tidewater Virginia. Unfortunately, references to the Massawomeck are brief & frequently apart from the mainstream...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0871698129
• ISBN13: 9780871698124
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: American Philosophical Society Press
• Length: 101 Pages