Indians, Early Discovery, and Skicoak

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Indians, Early Discovery, and Skicoak
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George Holbert Tucker (Norfolk Highlights: 1584-1881, Norfolk Historical Society, 1972, pp.1-2 ):
"The earliest definite record of an Indian settlement on land now occupied by Norfolk is found in

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the writings of Captain Arthur Barlowe, who, with Captain Philip Amadas, headed Sir Walter Raleigh's first exploratory expedition in 1584 to what are now known as the Outer Banks and Eastern North Carolina.
Barlowe recorded in his report to Raleigh, written the same year after his return to England, that the main town of the Chesepian Indians, the tribe that then occupied the area now including Norfolk, Portsmouth, Chesapeake, and Virginia Beach, was Skicoak, 'which the people say is very large, though none of the natives have seen it. But they have heard about the great size of the city from their fathers, who reported it takes about an hour to journey around it.'"