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The Indian massacre of 1622 took place in the English colony of Virginia on 1 April [O.S. 22 March] 1622. English explorer John Smith, though he was not an eyewitness, wrote in his History of Virginia that warriors of the Powhatan "came unarmed into our houses with deer, turkeys, fish, fruits, and other provisions to sell us"; [2] they then grabbed any tools or weapons available and killed all ...
Opechancanough ( / oʊpəˈtʃænkənoʊ / oh-pə-CHAN-kə-noh; 1554–1646) [ 2] was paramount chief of the Powhatan Confederacy in present-day Virginia from 1618 until his death. He had been a leader in the confederacy formed by his older brother Powhatan, from whom he inherited the paramountcy. Opechancanough led the Powhatan in the second ...
On March 22, 1622, Opchanacanough, head of the Powhatan Confederacy, began the Second Anglo-Powhatan War with a coordinated series of attacks against English settlements along the James River, known in English histories as the Indian massacre of 1622. Nine colonists were killed at Berkeley.
1622: March 22: Jamestown Massacre: Virginia: Powhatan (Pamunkey) killed 347 English settlers throughout the Virginia colony, almost one-third of the English population of the Jamestown colony, in an effort to push the English out of Virginia. They then destroyed crops and livestock causing 500 more people to die of starvation, reducing the ...
The militia were seeking revenge for the March 22, 1622 massacre. Captain William Powell, as he is identified in the list of Burgesses, [8] may have died in late 1622 or possibly in January 1623. A letter of January 24, 1623 from colonist John Harrison to his brother, Richard Harrison, states that Captain Powell, and others, were dead.
The engraving shows the March 22, 1622 massacre when Powhatan people attacked Jamestown and outlying Virginia settlements. Merian relied on de Bry's earlier depictions of the Native Americans, but the image is largely considered conjecture. On March 22, 1622, 347 or more colonists were killed during an Indian massacre. About one-sixth of the ...
March 22is the 81st day of the year (82nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 284 days remain until the end of the year. Events. Pre-1600. 106– Start of the Bostran era, the calendar of the province of Arabia Petraea.
As a result, another war between the two powers lasted from 1622 to 1632. Chief Opechancanough organized and led a well-coordinated series of surprise attacks on multiple English settlements along both sides of a 50-mile (80 km) long stretch of the James River which took place early on the morning of March 22, 1622.