Nottoway Indians

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The Nottoways' first recorded contact with the English colonists occurred in 1650 in present-day Sussex County. By 1694, due to hostile Indian attacks and encroaching settlers, the Nottoways had moved their main settlement to the mouth of Assamoosick Swamp in Southampton County. The Nottoway were farmers and hunters and their language was related to that of the Iroquois. By 1713, the House of Burgesses set the boundaries for the Nottoway Indian reservation. Over time, due to a decreasing population and white settlers' claims, Nottoway land was sold to outsiders. The legal termination of the Nottoway Indian reservation began in 1824 and by 1878 the last parcels of land had been divided among the surviving Nottoways.

Department of Historic Resources, 2000

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References/Bibliographic Citation:

Martha Wren Briggs, “The Metes and Bounds in a Circle and a Square the Nottoway Indians in Virginia,” Virginia Cavalcade 46 (Winter 1997): 132-143; Keith Egloff and Deborah Woodward, The Early Indians of Virginia (Richmond, Va.: Virginia Department of Historic Resources, 1992), 45, 53; Thomas C. Parramore, Southampton County Virginia (Charlottesville, Va.: The University Press of Virginia, 1978), 1-18; Helen Rountree, “The Termination & Dispersal of the Nottoway Indians of Virginia,” Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 95 (April 1987): 196 – 205.