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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
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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.
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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
230:–based Powhatan Confederacy, 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".
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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.
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583:Occaneechi
543:Chesapeake
538:Assateague
533:Arrohattoc
528:Appomattoc
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127:U.S. state
115:Chesapeake
593:Paspahegh
461:Nansemond
149:The name
111:Chesepian
102:Nansemond
72:Languages
34:Chesepian
18:Chesepian
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578:Nottoway
568:Meherrin
558:Manahoac
516:Historic
466:Pamunkey
432:Virginia
224:Powhatan
131:Virginia
84:Religion
62:Virginia
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456:Monacan
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200:History
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117:were a
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208:Demise
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