Chief Powhatan

Chief Powhatan

male, deceased (1618)
Chief Powhatan ("c." 1547-"c." 1618), whose proper name was Wahunsenacawh or (in seventeenth century English spelling) Wahunsunacock, was the...
John Rolfe

John Rolfe

male, deceased (1622)
John Rolfe (c. 1585 - 1622) was one of the early English settlers of North America. He is credited with the first successful cultivation of tobacco...

William Strachey

male, deceased (1621)
William Strachey (c. 1572- c. 1621) was an English writer and barrister, whose writings are among the primary sources for the history the English...
John Ratcliffe

John Ratcliffe

male, deceased (1609)
John Ratcliffe (died September 1609) was captain of the "Discovery", one of three boats that sailed from England on December 19, 1606 to Virginia,...

Tomocomo

male
Uttamatomakkin, known as Tomocomo for short, was a Powhatan native shaman who accompanied Pocahontas on her visit to London in 1616. Little is...

Weroance

male
A weroance is an Algonquian word meaning tribal chief, leader, commander, or king, notably among the Powhatan confederacy of the Virginia coast and...
John Tradescant The Younger

John Tradescant The Younger

male
John Tradescant the Younger (1608–1662), son of John Tradescant the elder, was a botanist and gardener, born in Meopham, Kent and educated at The Ki...

Totopotomoi

male, deceased (1656)
Totopotomoi (ca. 1625-1656) was a grandson of a sister of Chief Powhatan, the father of Pocahontas. He became the Chief of the Pamunkey Tribe in...
William S. Archer

William S. Archer

male, deceased (1855)
William Segar Archer (March 5, 1789 - March 28, 1855) was a politician and lawyer from Virginia who served in the United States Senate from 1841 to...

John M. Brooke

male, deceased (1906)
John Mercer Brooke (1826-1906) was a US Navy officer. He was born at Tampa Bay, Florida, on 18 December 1826. He became a lieutenant in 1855. An an...