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From: "laura crane" <>
Subject: Re: [PACE-L] Chanco
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 21:10:38 -0700


You mean we can assume that not only is Chanco also a Spanish
name but also that several of "Pocahantas' People" were named
the same as our Pace's Paines' Chanco? Laura Pace Crane
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From: Roy Johnson <>
To: <>
Date: Monday, April 28, 2003 6:50 PM
Subject: [PACE-L] Chanco


>While browsing the Internet, I did a search on "Chanco" (it's a Spanish
name
>also; lots of spaniards named that) and came up with a suburb of
>Williamsburg called "Chanco's Grant." That intrigued me and I emailed the
>webmaster asking if it had anything historically to do with Chanco. The
>webmaster put me in contact with local historians and I got this answer
from
>one of them:
>
>I'm sorry to disappoint you but the Chanco's Grant subdivision has nothing
>whatsoever to do with Chanco's being associated with the land. It was a
>name the developer selected arbitrarily. If you check Susan Myra
>Kingsbury's volumes, Records of the Virginia Company of London, you'll see
>that Chanco and another Native paid a visit to Martin's Hundred around
April
>1623. Chanco came as a messenger from Opechancanough, then the paramount
>leader of the Powhatan Chiefdom. You might enjoy looking at Helen C.
>Rountree's book, Pocahontas's People, for she has a discussion of Chanco.
>
>Hope this helps! Martha McCartney
>
>I went to Amazon.com and bought the last copy of the Rountree book, but
they
>are supposed to have more in shortly. Also, there was one used book vendor
>on Amazon who had the same book in "like new" condition but the price was
>the same as Amazon's new price.
>
>I seem to recall coming across the Chanco name in the Virginia Company
>records while I was spending a pleasant few hours at our local genealogical
>society reading room, where they have a complete set of them.
>Unfortunately, this was early in my research and I didn't have sense enough
>to take notes.
>
>Just thought this might be interesting. I think we need to do a bit of
>research and get some more info on Chanco into the Pace bulletin and
online.
>I wonder if this implies that Chanco went back to his own people.
>
>Roy Johnson
>
>
>
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