Paspahegh

The Powhatan Confederacy included Indigenous peoples of the Northeastern Woodlands who spoke a related Eastern Algonquian languages.

The Paspehegh were among the earliest tribes interact with British colonists, who established their first permanent settlement in the Virginia Colony at Jamestown in their territory, beginning on May 14, 1607.

This group of allied Algonquian tribes was not, in fact, a confederacy, which is more or less a unification of entities which are superior in self-governance to the central point of power.

The original capital of the Paspahegh Indians, present-day Sandy Point in Charles City County, was settled by English colonists in 1617, who called it Smith's Hundred.

St. Mary's Anglican Church was established there prior to the Indian massacre of 1622, a series of surprise attacks on English settlements in Virginia that devastated the colonial population.