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Mattapony Indian Town

Essex County · At Millers Tavern. · location approximate

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Three miles north, on Piscataway Swamp, the Mattapony Indians settled after the massacre of 1644. Here they lived in peace until 1668, when they moved west to the Mattapony River.

1948 text, presented as a historical document.

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

Marker data: Virginia Department of Conservation and Development, State Historical Markers of Virginia, 6th ed. (1948)

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