Queen Anne (Pamunkey chief)

Queen Anne (also recorded as Ann) (ca. 1650 - ca. 1715) succeeded to the position of chief of the Pamunkey tribe in 1708 after the obscure and short rule of "Queen Betty" who succeeded Cockacoeske. This was nearly a decade after Bacon's Rebellion. Queen Anne continued her predecessors efforts to unify the tribes and keep peace with English colonists.

History

Queen Ann succeeded the one known as Betty as chief of the Pamunkey in 1708.

The English expected Cockacoeske's son Captain John West to succeed her, but he may have died. He was said to be the son of the English Colonel John West, who had a plantation on the Pamunkey River. The senior West and Cockacoeske were documented companions.[1] As it happened she was succeeded by Betty her niece who ruled from 1686 to ca 1700. Anne then succeeded Betty in about 1708[2]

Queen Anne's last record in history was in 1715, when she was noted as visiting the colonial authorities. She had come to seek fair treatment for her tribe, who suffered encroachment and raids by settlers.[3]

Preceded by
Queen Betty		 Weroansqua of the Pamunkey
1686–1715		 Succeeded by
unknown

References

  1. ^ Frank E. Grizzard, D. Boyd Smith, Jamestown Colony, Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, Inc., 2007, p. 162, accessed 31 Jan 2009
  2. ^ A Study of Virginia Indians and Jamestown: The First Century Chapter four, by Martha W. McCartney for the National Park Service of the United States.
  3. ^ Frank E. Grizzard, D. Boyd Smith, Jamestown Colony, Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, Inc., 2007, p. 162, accessed 31 Jan 2009