Pamunkey most powerful. Powhatan and his daughter Matoaka (Pocahontas), who achieved historical fame, were Pamunkey Native Americans. Captain Samuel Argall abducted her as a hostage in an attempt to secure the release of some English prisoners and ammunitions held by her father. Initial contact with Europeans was around 1570. "And from [1570] on at ever briefer intervals until the first permanent English colony was established at Jamestown in 1607, the Powhatan Confederacy was visited by white men: Spanish, French, and English." (Barbour, 5). Scholars estimate that when the English arrived in 1607, this paramount chiefdom numbered about 14,000–21,000 people. Colonists of
John Moore (1595?–1657) John Moore (1595?–1657) John Moore (1595?–1657) was an English clergyman of Puritan views, known as an author of pamphlets against enclosures. Born at Knaptoft in Leicestershire, he was the son of the rector of the parish, John Moore. He has been identified as the John Moore who matriculated at Exeter College, Oxford, on 9 May 1617, aged 22. Moore succeeded his father as rector at Knaptoft. He was replaced by William Farrowe, however, by actions of William Laud. It has been suggested that he was the John Moore appointed to St James Duke's Place in 1641; and subsequently was chaplain