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scipan

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9. This is interesting. They were forced to merge

Tue Oct 13, 2020, 07:40 PM

Oct 2020

with the Wicocomico, then

The grandson of King Machywap Taptico (who was originally considered a friend of John Smith) was forced to sell the last remaining piece of Wicacoan-owned land following the Battle of the Wilderness fought there, because the ground was so littered with bodies. Being a massive "burial", the ground could no longer be cultivated. The splintered tribe (some which joined the Powhatan Confederacy, the rest integrated) was rendered functionally extinct and soon disappeared from the historical record.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicocomico

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