Chesapeake Indians

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In 1585, two towns of the Chesapeake Indians called Apasus and Chesepiooc were visited by the English Roanoke expedition and later included in Theodor De Bry's map of Virginia. Archaeological research conducted in the Great Neck neighborhood in the 1970s and 1980s yielded evidence of continual habitation for at least one thousand years before 1600 A.D. Several house sites were found, along with part of a palisade, pottery, trash pits, shell beads, and stone tools. The remains of 64 Chesapeake Indians from the Great Neck site were reburied by members of the Nansemond Indian tribe at nearby First Landing State Park in 1997.

Department of Historic Resources, 2008

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References/Bibliographic Citation:

“Roosevelt’s Tree Army, A Brief History of the Archer, Gabriel. 1607. “Relation of the Discovery of Our River.” Reprinted in Jamestown Narratives: Eyewitness Accounts of the Virginia Colony: The First Decade: 1607-1617, edited by Edward W. Haile, pp 106-107. Champlain, VA: RoundHouse, 1998. Harriot, Thomas. 1972. A Brief and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia: The Complete 1590 DeBry Edition. New York: Dover Publications, Inc. Hodges, Mary Ellen N. 1998. Native American Settlement at Great Neck: Report on VDHR Archaeological Investigations of Woodland Components at Site 44VB7, Virginia Beach, Virginia, 1981-1987. Richmond: Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Quinn, David B. 1985. Set Fair for Roanoke: Voyages and Colonies, 1584-1606. University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill. Perry, Oliver Linwood, Sr. Personal communications. (will get newspaper article reference for the reburial ceremony) Strachey, William. 1612. “A True Reportory of the Wreck and Redemption of Sir Thomas Gates.” Reprinted in Jamestown Narratives: Eyewitness Accounts of the Virginia Colony: The First Decade: 1607-1617, edited by Edward W. Haile, pp 608, 662, 666. Champlain, VA: RoundHouse, 1998.