The Piscataway exodus: how Virginia colonists forced a nation from its ancestral home

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Virginia Traders’ Brutal Campaign Against Potomac Piscataway Villages

The Piscataway lived in peace along the Potomac for over 300 years. Then came the 1620s.

What started with Captain John Smith’s friendly 1608 visit turned ugly when Virginia traders wanted furs and land. They burned the main village of Moyaone not once but twice…

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