Just before Bacon's Rebellion, some of the Pamunkey may have been living with the Piscataway in Maryland Source: Mid-Atlantic Regional Council on the Ocean, Mid-Atlantic Ocean Data Portal The Pamunkey lived on the York River, while the town of the Powhatan was on the James River The paramount chief, known as Powhatan or Wahunsenacawh, ruled over both tribes. The Powhatan tribe at what is now Tree Hill in Henrico County was separate from the Pamunkey tribe living at Werowocomoco, located on Purtan Bay of the York River. The colonists later discovered that the paramount chief lived with the Pamunkey at Werowocomoco. The English thought they had contacted the paramount chief Powhatan. Captain Newport met a werowance named Tanx (Little) Powhatan, who was in charge of a town just downstream of the Fall Line. When the English colonists arrived in 1607, they sailed up the river they named the James.

Source: Library of Congress, Map of King William County, Va (by Benjamin Lewis Blackford, c.1865) The Confederate Engineer Bureau documented how the Richmond and York River Railroad crossed the Pamunkey reservation Source: Library of Congress, Map of Atlantic Coast of North America from the Chesapeake Bay to Florida (Joan Vinckeboons, 1639?) In the mid-1600's, the Dutch still used the name 'Pamunkey' rather than 'York' River The Pamunkey of Virginia The Pamunkey in Virginia

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