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They occupied an area which is now in the independent cities of [Norfolk](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norfolk,_Virginia "Norfolk, Virginia") and [Virginia Beach](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Beach,_Virginia "Virginia Beach, Virginia") (formerly [Norfolk County](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norfolk_County,_Virginia "Norfolk County, Virginia") and [Princess Anne County](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Anne_County,_Virginia "Princess Anne County, Virginia")).[1][2] ## Name [[edit](/w/index.php?title=Chesapeake_people&action=edit§ion=1 "Edit section: Name")] The name _Chesapeake_ is an [anglicisation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglicisation_\(linguistics\) "Anglicisation \(linguistics\)") of the Algonquian word, _K'che-sepi-ack_ , which translates as "country on a great river."[2] The name for the Native American tribe is spelled many different ways, "Chesapian" is commonly used.[3][4][5] In 1585, [Ralph Lane](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Lane "Ralph Lane") used both "Chesapians"[6] and "Chesapeaks",.[2] [John Smith's](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Smith_\(explorer\) "John Smith \(explorer\)") charts and writings also show variety but most frequently used "Chesapeaks".[2] [John White's](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_White_\(colonist_and_artist\) "John White \(colonist and artist\)") illustrations used "Ehesepiooc".[2] ## Settlements [[edit](/w/index.php?title=Chesapeake_people&action=edit§ion=2 "Edit section: Settlements")] They occupied an area which is now the [Norfolk](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norfolk,_Virginia "Norfolk, Virginia"), [Portsmouth](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portsmouth,_Virginia "Portsmouth, Virginia"), [Chesapeake](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chesapeake,_Virginia "Chesapeake, Virginia") and [Virginia Beach](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Beach,_Virginia "Virginia Beach, Virginia") areas.[7] The main village of the Chesepian was Skicoak on the peninsula east of the [Elizabeth River](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_River_\(Virginia\) "Elizabeth River \(Virginia\)") either on that river[8] or near the [Lynnhaven River](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynnhaven_River "Lynnhaven River").[9] Two other Chesepian towns were Apasus and [Chesepioc](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chesepioc_\(settlement\) "Chesepioc \(settlement\)") (Chesepiuc), both on the same peninsula in what is now the city of Virginia Beach. Chesepioc lay on [Great Neck Point](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Neck_Point "Great Neck Point") east of the Lynnhaven River.[10] Archaeologists and others have found numerous Native American arrowheads, stone axes, pottery, and beads in Great Neck Point. Several native burials were found as well.[10] ## Language and affiliation [[edit](/w/index.php?title=Chesapeake_people&action=edit§ion=3 "Edit section: Language and affiliation")] Although they spoke an [Eastern Algonquian language](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Algonquian_language "Eastern Algonquian language") like many tribes within the [Powhatan Confederacy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powhatan_Confederacy "Powhatan Confederacy"), archaeological evidence suggests that the Chesepian people originally belonged to another group, the [Carolina Algonquian](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamlico "Pamlico"). ## History [[edit](/w/index.php?title=Chesapeake_people&action=edit§ion=4 "Edit section: History")] The culture of the Chesapians is called "Late Woodland" and they depended heavily on the resources of the Chesapeake Bay, notably the fish and shellfish.[11][12] There is evidence that some of the survivors of the [Roanoke Colony](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roanoke_Colony "Roanoke Colony") settled with the Chesapians after the failure of their settlement.[13][14] In 1607, after the decimation by Powhatan,[15] the Chesapians had about 100 warriors and a total population estimated at 350.[2] By 1669, they ceased to exist as a tribe.[2] ### Demise [[edit](/w/index.php?title=Chesapeake_people&action=edit§ion=5 "Edit section: Demise")] [](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Chesapeake_Burial_Ground_Plaque_@_First_Landing_State_Park_\(7368835318\).jpg)Grave marker of relocated remains of Chesapeake natives According to [William Strachey](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Strachey "William Strachey")'s _[The Historie of Travaile Into Virginia Britannia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Historie_of_Travaile_Into_Virginia_Britannia "The Historie of Travaile Into Virginia Britannia")_ (1618), the Chesepian were wiped out by the [Powhatan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powhatan "Powhatan"), the leader of the [Virginia Peninsula](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Peninsula "Virginia Peninsula")–based [Powhatan Confederacy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsenacommacah "Tsenacommacah"), sometime before the arrival of the English at Jamestown in 1607. The Chesepian were eliminated because Powhatan's priests had warned him that "from the Chesapeake Bay a nation should arise, which should dissolve and give end to his empire".[16][15] Though historians of the period express little doubt that the Powhatans eradicated the Chesapeake tribe, Strachey's belief that these rumored prophesies indicated the Christian God's intervention on behalf of the Jamestown Colony against "The Devil's Empire" appears, in hindsight, rather eccentric.[17] ## References [[edit](/w/index.php?title=Chesapeake_people&action=edit§ion=6 "Edit section: References")] 1. ↑ Tazewell, William L.; Friddell, Guy (2000). _Norfolk's Waters: An Illustrated History of Hampton Roads_. Sun Valley, California: American Historical Press. p. 17\. [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_\(identifier\) "ISBN \(identifier\)") [978-1-892724-16-8](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-892724-16-8 "Special:BookSources/978-1-892724-16-8"). 2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Hodge, Frederick Webb (1911). [_Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico_](https://books.google.com/books?id=ze4YAAAAYAAJ&dq=k'che&pg=PA249). Smithsonian Institution. p. 249. Retrieved 18 March 2025. 3. ↑ Tazewell, William L. (1982). _Norfolk's waters : an illustrated maritime history of Hampton Roads_. Norfolk, Vurginia: Windsor Publications. pp. 18–19\. [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_\(identifier\) "ISBN \(identifier\)") [978-0-89781-045-6](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-89781-045-6 "Special:BookSources/978-0-89781-045-6"). 4. ↑ Lawler, Andrew (2018). [_The Secret Token: Myth, Obsession, and the Search for the Lost Colony of Roanoke_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_Token "The Secret Token"). New York: Knopf Doubleday. p. [52](https://books.google.com/books?id=uK6ZDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA52). [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_\(identifier\) "ISBN \(identifier\)") [978-0-385-54201-2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-385-54201-2 "Special:BookSources/978-0-385-54201-2"). 5. ↑ La Vere, David (2010). _The lost rocks: the Dare Stones and the unsolved mystery of Sir Walter Raleigh's Lost Colony_. Wilmington, North Carolina: Dram Tree Books. p. [298, footnote 129](https://books.google.com/books?id=6XyW01Qg7LMC&pg=PT298). [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_\(identifier\) "ISBN \(identifier\)") [978-0-9844900-1-1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-9844900-1-1 "Special:BookSources/978-0-9844900-1-1"). 6. ↑ Dillman, Jefferson (2015). "English Encounters with the New World". _Colonizing Paradise: Landscape and Empire in the British West Indies_. Tuscaloosa, Alabama: University of Alabama Press. p. 50\. [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_\(identifier\) "ISBN \(identifier\)") [978-0-8173-8804-1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-8173-8804-1 "Special:BookSources/978-0-8173-8804-1"). 7. ↑ Feest, Christian F. (1973). ["Seventeenth Century Virginia Algonquian Population Estimates"](https://d1wqtxts1xzle7.cloudfront.net/54283082/Seventeenth_Century_Virginia_Algonquian_Population_Estimates-libre.pdf?1504031836=&response-content-disposition=inline%3B+filename%3DSeventeenth_Century_Virginia_Algonquian.pdf&Expires=1742226796&Signature=adZAOncl-ucH8FYJqDff~3~BswKRm2zxboUUIJiYYLn7nXlpjpZ0jlIty4VR~hibBuaMLYOqrK1d5YCUZi07nE3NwDQ54ktmhpSvW7Vff7lKcwpm0~mWv~auZrddmOdBsGR99PXqV0XvC8eW2R528g8NIu1rVdnI~6Su9rQnPdlN7NaOuI4j1sJxBE7TIpx230u9jwb2LspUABnZ4vdwbBQB9llfU0CJLyD9LjXMAAQEwtF6MyPLI7Z3iYwKUrYuJCVN8EqwlGw4x1QggiCcducgUFi2Op3qvGpdRm1ibcPXdonFUJKoIEragCUWjIr4gfOUTjUWH~TWo8iQZc4S7A__&Key-Pair-Id=APKAJLOHF5GGSLRBV4ZA) (PDF). _Quarterly Bulletin, Archeological Society of Virginia_. **28** (2): 66–79, page 71. [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20250317154039/https://d1wqtxts1xzle7.cloudfront.net/54283082/Seventeenth_Century_Virginia_Algonquian_Population_Estimates-libre.pdf?1504031836=&response-content-disposition=inline%3B+filename%3DSeventeenth_Century_Virginia_Algonquian.pdf&Expires=1742226796&Signature=adZAOncl-ucH8FYJqDff~3~BswKRm2zxboUUIJiYYLn7nXlpjpZ0jlIty4VR~hibBuaMLYOqrK1d5YCUZi07nE3NwDQ54ktmhpSvW7Vff7lKcwpm0~mWv~auZrddmOdBsGR99PXqV0XvC8eW2R528g8NIu1rVdnI~6Su9rQnPdlN7NaOuI4j1sJxBE7TIpx230u9jwb2LspUABnZ4vdwbBQB9llfU0CJLyD9LjXMAAQEwtF6MyPLI7Z3iYwKUrYuJCVN8EqwlGw4x1QggiCcducgUFi2Op3qvGpdRm1ibcPXdonFUJKoIEragCUWjIr4gfOUTjUWH~TWo8iQZc4S7A__&Key-Pair-Id=APKAJLOHF5GGSLRBV4ZA) (PDF) from the original on 17 March 2025. 8. ↑ Hodge 1911, p. 249 citing [Smith](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_John_Smith "Captain John Smith") (1629) _[Virginia](https://search.worldcat.org/title/77896911)_ I, 87 9. ↑ Hodge 1911, p. 249 citing [Jefferson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson "Thomas Jefferson") _[Notes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notes_on_the_State_of_Virginia "Notes on the State of Virginia")_ 138 (1809) 10. 1 2 Painter, Floyd (1979). "The Ancient Indian Town of Chesapeake on the Peninsula of Great Neck: A Brief History". _Chesopiean_. **17** : 4–51 and 65–75. 11. ↑ Miller, Henry M. (2001). "Chapter 6: Living along the Great Shellfish Bay: The Relationship between Prehistoric Peoples and the Chesapeake". In Curtin, Philip D.; Brush, Grace S.; Fisher, George W. (eds.). _Discovering the Chesapeake: The History of an Ecosystem_. Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 109–124\. [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_\(identifier\) "ISBN \(identifier\)") [978-0-8018-7517-5](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-8018-7517-5 "Special:BookSources/978-0-8018-7517-5"). 12. ↑ Dent, Richard J., Jr. (1995). "Chapter 6: The Woodland Period: Expansion, Chiefdoms, and the End of Prehistory". _Chesapeake Prehistory: Old Traditions, New Directions_. Boston, Massachusetts: Springer. pp. 217–285, pages 223–224. [doi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doi_\(identifier\) "Doi \(identifier\)"):[10.1007/978-0-585-29562-6_6](https://doi.org/10.1007%2F978-0-585-29562-6_6). [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_\(identifier\) "ISBN \(identifier\)") [978-0-306-45028-0](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-306-45028-0 "Special:BookSources/978-0-306-45028-0").`{{[cite book](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Cite_book "Template:Cite book")}}`: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list ([link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:CS1_maint:_multiple_names:_authors_list "Category:CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list")) 13. ↑ Nichols, Roger L. (1998). _Indians in the United States and Canada: A Comparative History_. Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press. pp. [40–41](https://books.google.com/books?id=xDptolIJzuMC&pg=PA40), note 8 page 328. [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_\(identifier\) "ISBN \(identifier\)") [978-0-8032-3341-6](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-8032-3341-6 "Special:BookSources/978-0-8032-3341-6"). 14. ↑ William Strachey (1846). _The Historie of Travaile into Virginia Britannia,_ approx. 1618 __. London: Hakluyt Society edition. p. [26](https://books.google.com/books?id=fYYMAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA26). 15. 1 2 Horn, James (2005). _A Land As God Made It – Jamestown and the Birth of America_. New York: Basic Books. pp. 145–146\. [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_\(identifier\) "ISBN \(identifier\)") [978-0-465-03094-1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-465-03094-1 "Special:BookSources/978-0-465-03094-1"). 16. ↑ Strachey 1849, p. [101](https://books.google.com/books?id=fYYMAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA101) [It is] not long since that his priests told him how that from the Chesapeack Bay a nation should arise which should dissolve and give end to his empire, for which, not many yeares since (perplext with this divelish oracle, and divers understanding thereof), according to the ancyent and gentile customs, he destroyed and put to sword all such who might lye under any doubtful construccion of the said prophesie, as all the inhabitants, the weroance and his subjects of that province, and so remaine all the Chessiopeians at this daye, and for this cause, extinct. 17. ↑ Strachey 1849, p. [102](https://books.google.com/books?id=fYYMAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA102) Judge all men whether these maye not be the forerunners of an alteration of the devill's empire here? I hope they be, nay, I dare prognosticate that they usher great accidents, and that we shall effect them; the Divine power assist us in this worke, which, begun for heavenly ends, may have as heavenly period. ## Sources [[edit](/w/index.php?title=Chesapeake_people&action=edit§ion=7 "Edit section: Sources")] * Helen C. Rountree. _The Powhatan Indians of Virginia: Their Traditional Culture_. Norman, Univ. of Oklahoma Press (1989). * Helen C. Rountree. _Pocahontas's People: The Powhatan Indians of Virginia through Four Centuries_. Norman, Univ. of Oklahoma Press (1990). * Shi, David, E. _America: A Narrative History_ (6th edition), (2004) W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. * [Strachey, William](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Strachey "William Strachey") (1849) [composed c. 1612]. [_The Historie of Travaile into Virginia Britannia_](https://archive.org/details/historietravail00majogoog). London: [Hakluyt Society](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hakluyt_Society "Hakluyt Society"). 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