A very informative video presentation. Thanks so much for sharing!

Great presentation. Ms. Atkins Spivey is a beautiful, educated and knowledgable young lady. May she go far with her career. My late father was a member of the Chickahominy tribe, a neighboring Tidewater Virginia tribe that lived along the Chickahominy River. He recounted that when he was a child in the '30s, his old great aunt told him stories about her experiences there as a young girl during the Civil War. The region was a hotbed of war activities, including the Seven Days Battles, and the battles of Cold Harbor, Richmond and Mechanicsville. She said that Civil War soldiers often barged into her family's home and ransacked the place. My late uncle told me that one of their cousins found a live Civil War artillery shell, probably while plowing a field, and probably in the '30s. As he was fooling around with it (I can't remember if he was tossing it around or if he threw it into a fire), it blew up, severing his leg and rendering him one of the last casualties of the Civil War. I don't know his name or his fate thereafter. Ironically, my 8th-g-grandfather (from my white mother's side), Captain Thomas Purifoy, arrived in Jamestown in 1621. He led a party of colonist soldiers on a warring campaign against the Nansemond tribe (another Tidewater Virginia tribe) in 1627, developed a 2,500 plantation called "Drayton" in Elizabeth City (now Hampton), and was appointed to the Virginia House of Burgesses, where he served from 1630-1637. He died in 1638-39, having established the Purifoys as one of Virginia's founding families. I have no idea where he's buried.

Doing family genealogy I discovered that I am related to Cockacoeske. I've always found genealogy tracing to be quite interesting. much history to be learned from our family lines.

I love hearing about my family. Tribe.thank you for your words may your blessings go far

Excellent and important piece of scholarship. I look forward to seeing your dissertation! Congratulations!!

This is very interesting as I just found out that the "Coy" side of my family is Pamunkey. And, on another branch of my family are the "Stegers", one of the first families of Virginia that includes President Thomas Jefferson.

The pamunkey queen in the mid 1600's was my 13 th-great grandmother/ her and Colonel John Smith had my 12 th-gg captain jihn smith.

Wow. Imagine if Alexander Hamilton was actually part powatan Indian being that he was west Indian ?? Incredible

ive just learned that i have ancestors from the pamunkey tribe.

We're not Indians!!! We never were!! Indian is the foreign colonizer term to reference Native People!! NATIVE INDEPENDENCE!!

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