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 1564 - 1644 (~ 80 years)
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| Name |
Chief Eagle Plume |
| Birth |
0___ 1564 |
Jamestown, Virginia  [1] |
- Iroquois Nation, Pre-Colonial America, Virgnia
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| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
0___ 1644 |
(Virginia) [2] |
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| Person ID |
I26926 |
The Hennessee Family |
| Last Modified |
21 Apr 2014 |
| Family |
Cleopatra Scent Flower, b. 0___ 1570, Jamestown, Virginia d. 0___ 1600, (Algonquin Empire, Virginia) (Age ~ 30 years) |
| Children |
| | 1. Jane Eagle Plume, b. 0___ 1584, Algonquin Empire, Virginia d. 0___ 1655, Richmond, Richmond County, Virginia (Age ~ 71 years) |
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| Family ID |
F9660 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
30 Apr 2023 |
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| Notes |
- Was "Opechancanough" the same person as "Chief Eagle Plume"?
Michael A. Tipton <http://www.amazon.com/gp/pdp/profile/A1EZ2UH59XRQG5/ref=cm_cd_et_pdp> says:
This question is directed to Helen C. Rountree.
I am descended from "John Dodds (or Dods)", from the Jamestown Colony. My people on the internet have claimed that he married "Jane Eagle Plume", the daughter of "Chief Eagle Plume". (I have no actual way of knowing if this was true or not.) While trying to filter though a lot of stuff on the internet, I found a person who "claimed" that "Opechancanough" was the same person as "Chief Eagle Plume". I have no idea if "Chief Eagle Plume" existed or not, or if this is the same person. I did find a reference to a translation of "Opechancanough" His name meant "He whose Soul is White" in the Algonquian language.[2] (From Wikipedia) I figured if anyone would know the answer to the question, you probably would. There are a LOT of people who are the descendants of "John Dodds" and "Jane Eagle Plume". I you can be of assistance, I would appreciate it. My email address is
Michael A Tipton
Charlotte NC
October 3 2009
michaeltipton2222@gmail.com [3]
- Opechancanough. A Powhatan chief, born about 1545, died in 1644.
He captured Capt. John Smith shortly after the arrival of the latter in Virginia, and took him to his brother, the head-chief Powhatan (q. v.). Some time after his release, Smith, in order to change the temper of the Indians, who jeered at the starving Englishmen and refused to sell them food, went with a band of his men to Opechancanough's camp under pretense of buying corn, seized the chief by the hair, and at the point of a pistol marched him off a prisoner. The Pamunkey brought boat-loads of provisions to ransom their chief, who thereafter entertained more respect and deeper hatred for the English. While Powhatan lived Opechancanough was held in restraint, but after his brother's death in 1618 he became the dominant leader of the nation, although his other brother, Opitchapan, was the nominal head-chief.
He plotted the destruction of the colony so secretly that only one Indian, the Christian Chanco, revealed the conspiracy, but too late to save the people of Jamestown, who at a sudden signal were massacred, Mar. 22, 1622, by the natives deemed to be entirely friendly.
In the period of intermittent hostilities that followed, duplicity and treachery marked the actions of both whites and Indians. In the last year of his life, Opechancanough, taking advantage of the dissensions of the English, planned their extermination. The aged chief was borne into battle on a litter when the Powhatan, on Apr. 18, 1644, fell upon the settlements and massacred 300 persons, then as suddenly desisted and fled far from the colony, frightened perhaps by some omen. Opechancanough was taken prisoner to Jamestown, where one of his guards treacherously shot him, inflicting a wound of which he subsequently died.
This is none other than MY 16th Great Grandfather - Chief Eagle Plume!
The Dates are as Follows: Chief O: Birth: 1545, Chief E.P.: 1543 or 45
Chief O: Death: 1644, Chief E.P.: 1643/44
Chief O: Tribal Affil: Powhatan/Pamunke,
Chief E.P. Tribal Affil: Powhatan/Pamunke
Chief O: Dominant Leader of Iroquois
Chief E.P.: Dominant Leader of Iroquois (As Records so state)
Family Pl. of Lineage, Chief O: Jamestown
Family Pl. of Lineage, Chief E.P.: Jamestown
Coincidence? I doubt it!
YEEHAW! [2]
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