Nottoway

The Nottoway were an Iroquoian-speaking people in Virginia, whose towns stood along the Nottoway River and Stony Creek. English explorer Edward Bland visited two towns in 1650, when they were led by the brothers Oyeocker and Chounerounte.

A Nottoway representative signed the Treaty of Middle Plantation in 1680, making the tribe tributary to Virginia. War forced the Nottoway southward, and in 1694 they moved again to a swamp in what is now Southampton County. In 1820 John Wood recorded words of their language from Edith Turner.