Weyanock

The Weyanoke were an Indigenous people of the Virginia river country, remembered in the name of a peninsula enclosed by a bend of the James. John Smith recorded their name as Weyanock, one of several spellings used by English colonists. At the beginning of the seventeenth century they traded with the Powhatan leader Wahunsenacawh, and some historians consider them part of his confederacy. The Weyanoke signed the Treaty of Middle Plantation with Virginia in 1677. After further displacement, their communities came to live among the Nottoway along the river of that name.