NOUN
- Indian chief and founder of the Powhatan confederacy of tribes in eastern Virginia; father of Pocahontas (1550?-1618)
- the Algonquian language of the Powhatan
- a member of the Algonquian people who formerly lived in eastern Virginia
How To Use Powhatan In A Sentence
- In 1998 and 1999, a 17-year-old male held at Beaumont Juvenile Correctional Center in Powhatan County was investigated by state police for sex offenses with female staff there. Female Prison Staff Offenders in Two-thirds of Sexual Assaults | Impact Lab
- He presided over the Powhatan empire at the time the English established the Jamestown Colony (1607).
- Smith, our President, to the Falls, to the little Powhatan, where, unknown to me, he sold me to him for a town called Powhatan; and, leaving me with him, the little Captain John Smith
- To Powhatan ample presents were made of penny-knives, shears, and toys, and he invited them to visit him at one of his seats called Powhatan, which was within a mile of the Falls, where now stands the city of The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner
- President, to the Falls, to the little Powhatan, where, unknown to me, he sold me to him for a town called Powhatan; and, leaving me with him, the little Powhatan, he made known to Capt. The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner
- These new English settlers looked and acted very differently from Powhatan's tribe.
- To place him more advantageously the President sent to Powhatan, offering to buy the place called Powhatan, promising to defend him against the Captain John Smith
- As the Powhatan was a king then his daughter was a princess, and as such must be treated with all respect. This Country of Ours: The Story of the United States
- Obtaining there a good supply of food from the Indians, they returned to the Jamestown settlement, about forty miles up the river, then called Powhatan, now known as the James. The end of an era,
- Powhatan, for the purchase of his place called Powhatan, which he was willing to accept; but the disorderly spirits he had sent thither, who were dreaming that the country immediately above them was full of gold, to which they wished no one to have access but themselves, refused the place or to ratify the contract, despising alike his kindness and his authority. Historical collections of Virginia
