Potapoco

The Potapoco were an Algonquian-speaking people who lived along a tributary of the lower Potomac. Their settlement was called Potopaco, a name later associated with the river and the English town of Port Tobacco. During the seventeenth century English colonists entered the region; some surviving Potapoco were subsequently absorbed by the Piscataway, the dominant Indigenous people on the northern side of the Potomac.