Nanzatico

The Nanzatico lived on both sides of the Rappahannock River. Their community included people from neighbouring groups displaced by English settlement, among them Patawomeck and Rappahannock families. John Smith recorded their predecessors, the Nantaughtacund, on the river in 1608 and marked a leader's house on his map. Their leader Pattanochus joined the Treaty of Middle Plantation in 1680, but the colony did not prevent settlers from encroaching on their lands.

In 1704 the Nanzatico petitioned Virginia's House of Burgesses about further encroachment. Later that year a Nanzatico war party killed an English settler and his family. Colonial militia captured members of the community; five men were executed, and the other captives over twelve were sold into slavery in the West Indies. Younger children were forced into service in Virginia.