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Timeline of name variants in English records
▪ 1608 - Capt. Smith records that Debedeavon is ruling Accowmacke, pop. 2000
▪ 1620 - Debedeavon grants large tracts to Thomas Savage and to Governor George Yeardley.
▪ 1635 - Patent to Thomas Savage's widow Hannah "by the King of the Easterne shoare as by deed calling himselfe Esmy Schichans."
▪ 1648 - Richard Vaughan buys tract from "Debbedeaven, king of Nandue."
▪ 1650 - Edmund Scarburgh, Jr. buys 2000 acres from Okiawampe, "great Kinge of the Easterne Shore."
▪ 1653 - Dr. George Hack buys 1000 acres from "Tepitiason, King of great Nuswattocks"
▪ 1657 - "Deabedanba, Kinge of great nusangs" gives 100 acres to Joan Johnson
▪ 1657 - Will of Okiawampe
▪ 1663 - Thomas Leatherbury buys 1200 acres from "Tapatiapon, great Emperor of the Eastern Shore" for three matchcoats |
