Elizabeth City Parish, Kecoughtan - VA Genealogy

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Kecoughtan Old and New
Or
Three Hundred Years of
Elizabeth City Parish
Being a Compilation of the
Most Important Documents and Historical Events Connected With
The Purchase of its Territory, Laying off of the City and early Settlement
By Jacob Heffelfinger, 1910
60 pages, illustrated, indexed & searchable
- Bonus Book –
History of Hampton
and Elizabeth City County, VA
By Lyon G. Tyler , 1922
56 pages, Indexed, Searchable
- Bonus Book –
Shreds and Patches of History
Found Mostly in Virginia
By Mildred Beatty Pierce, 1922
154 pages, Indexed, Searchable
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An address, delivered July 19th, 1910, in St. John's Church, Hampton, Virginia, on the occasion of the 300th
Anniversary of the occupation of the Parish by the English.
St. John’s Church is the oldest English-speaking parish in America, founded in 1610
Kecoughtan in Virginia was originally named Kikotan (also spelled Kiccowtan, Kikowtan etc.), the name of the
Algonquian Native Americans living there when the English colonists arrived in the Hampton Roads area in 1607.
According to William Strachey, Chief Powhatan had slain the weroance at Kecoughtan in 1597, appointing his
own young son Pochins as successor there, while resettling some of the tribe at the Piankatank River. Powhatan
annihilated the inhabitants at Piankatank in 1608.
The Kecoughtan village was where the English explorers received their first welcome in 1607, and the tribe
remained generally friendly to them until the summer of 1609, when president John Smith sent Captain Martin
to forcibly take over the island inhabited by the Nansemonds, across the mouth of the James. A company of 17
men mutinied from Martin and absconded to Kecoughtan to buy corn, and were all annihilated, after which Martin
abandoned the Nansemonds' island and returned to Jamestown.
The colonists then built Fort Algernon at Old Point Comfort beside their main village in October 1609, and after
the arrival of Lord Delaware, the English seized their land on July 9, 1610 by luring them out of their village with
a tambourine player, then attacking them. The surviving Kecoughtans fled to merge with other Powhatan groups[1].
The area was continuously occupied after 1610. It became part of Elizabeth River Shire in 1634, and Elizabeth City
County in 1637. In the 1690s, Kecoughtan became part of the newly incorporated Town of Hampton, which later
became an independent city. Elizabeth City County and its only incorporated town, Phoebus, both agreed to a
consolidation with Hampton in 1952, forming the current City of Hampton.
Through Fort Algernon and the Kecoughtan settlement, Hampton can claim to be the oldest continually occupied
English-speaking settlement in the United States, by virtue of Jamestown (which usually claims this distinction)
having been abandoned for two days in June, 1610.
In an area immediately to the south of the original settlement, many years later, the incorporated town of
Kecoughtan was developed and existed in Elizabeth City County before it was annexed by the independent city
of Newport News on January 1, 1927.
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