Meherrin in Virginia

in the colonial period, the Meherrin had a town south of the Virginia-North Carolina border
Source: East Carolina University, A New and Correct Map of the Province of North Carolina (by Edward Moseley, 1733); Library of Congress and University of North Carolina, "A compleat map of North-Carolina from an actual survey" (by John Collet, 1770)

the Meherrin State Designated Tribal Statistical Area (SDTSA) is on the Chowan River in North Carolina
Source: Census Reporter, Meherrin SDTSA

Edward Bland and Abraham Wood

The Iroquois in Virginia

Native American Tribes in Virginia Since Contact

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Tuscarora in Virginia

early European mapmakers showed the "Mongoacs" living south of the Chesapeake Bay watershed
Source: University of North Carolina, Americae pars, Nunc Virginia (Theodor de Bry, 1590); Virginia et Florida (Gerhard Mercator, 1610); Willem Janszoon Blaeu, Virginiae partis australis et Floridae partis orientalis interjacentiumq[ue] regionum nova descriptio (c.1640)

Links

• Meherrin Nation
• LearnNC
• About the Meherrin
• Library of Virginia - Document Bank of Virginia
• Meherrin Indians, Petition to the Governor of Virginia, 1723
• Meherrin Indian Nation
• Native Heritage Project
• The Meherrin and the Susquehanna Indians
• Will the Real Meherrin, Please Stand Up (March 30, 2012)
• NCpedia
• Meherrin Indians
• North Carolina History Project
• Meherrin Nation
• Prince William Network/Virginia Department of Education
• Virginia's First People
• Virginia Foundation for the Humanities
• Virginia Indian Heritage Trail

in 1970 the US Geological Survey concluded that it was unclear what language was spoken by the Meherrin
Source: National Atlas of the United States of America, Indian tribes, Cultures & Languages (1970)