Colonists who have survived the Good Friday…

October 1622 CE

Colonists who have survived the Good Friday attacks have raided the tribes and particularly their corn crops in the summer and fall of 1622 so successfully that Chief Opechancanough decides in desperation to negotiate.

Through friendly native intermediaries, a peace parley finally takes place between the two groups.

However, some of the Jamestown leaders, led by Captain William Tucker and Dr. John Potts, poison the Indians' share of the liquor for the parley's ceremonial toast.

The poison kills about two hundred natives and another fifty are then killed by hand.

Chief Opechancanough escapes, however.

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Jamestown James City Virginia United States View →

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Opechancanough View →

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Powhatan (Amerind tribe) View → London Company, The (also called the Virginia Company of London) View → Virginia (English Colony) View →

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Colonization of the Americas, English View → Anglo-Powhatan War, Second View →

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