Colonial Occuptions

August 6,1765

I am a Potter

I make pots,bowls,cups,and plats.All of  this stuff is made out of clay,and after it is formed into a utensil it has to dry.After it has been dried it is ready to be painted and put on a shelf .We also use molds to make buttons and pipes.Often I use the same clay as a brick maker.Were not the only ones who make pottery ,farmers also do pottery in there spare time and sell it to their neighbors.Men who do pottery use their strong hands and not a wheel.

 

Colonial Leaders

Who is Opechancanough

Sahem and war leader of Powhatan forces.

Known for his leadership and military prowess.

He was a war-chief of Tsenacommacah.

This appointment made him the military prowess.

At some point before the arrival of the english,powhatan likely designed opechancanough  as a werowance  or chief  of the youghtanund indians  and later the head of the adjacent pamunkey Tribe.

The once formidable war-chief was captured by forces under virginia governor sir William.

On April 18,1646 the anging opechancanough launched the second of his great assaults against  the english with little success.

In october 1642 a peace agreement was signed by opechancanough predecess.

He was a tribal chief  within powhatan confederacy of what is now virginia united states.

The captured indian was initially taken to mexico .where he was baptized and educated  by the dominicans.