The Paspahegh were an Indian tribe that inhabited the Charles City and James City Counties of Virginia until 1611. The Paspahegh became tributaries to the Powhatan confederacy in 1596, and their chief Wowinchapuncke initially greeted the English settlers of Jamestown with a long oration before, later in 1607, beginning to resist the arrival of European settlers. War broke out between the two nations, and, in August 1610, the English destroyed the Paspahegh town and its crops, killed 16 people, and executed the wife and two children of Wowinchapuncke. Wowinchapuncke was later killed in a skirmish with the English, and, by May 1611, Thomas Dale found that the Paspahegh capital had become overgrown with weeds, as the remaining Paspahegh moved elsewhere.
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