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Chesepiok


Title Chesepiok
Origtitle Page 39 - Virginia - Right Side
Source UNC German De Bry
Date 1590
Creator Theodor de Bry (Engraver); John White (Artist)
Type Engraving
Origin UNC German De Bry
Occurrences

Chesepiok

Atlas

Map of Virginia

Additional Notes

The principal settlement in the Chesepians' territory was Chesepiok, "being distant fifteene miles from the shoare" (Lane, p. 738). The DeBry map illustrates the settlement's location relative to the Chespeake Bay. Lane notes this was the furthest north they explored, about 130 miles from Roanoake to the Chesepians territory, and that "the passage to it was very shalow and most dangerous, by reason of the bredth of the sound". Judging by this passage in Lane (p. 738), and the White and DeBry maps, Lane's detachment likely explored up through Currituck Sound and what is now known as the North Landing River.