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All of these are local designations for peoples of mixed race with an Indian nucleous differing in no way from the present mixed-blood remnants known as Pamunkey, Chickahominy, and Nansemond Indians in Virginia, excepting in the more complete loss of their identity.
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The Pamunkey was a beautiful stream, densely wooded, and occasional vistas opened up along its borders of wheat-fields and meadows, with
Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War George Alfred Townsend 1877
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One of the 19 she sponsored would name Pamunkey, a river sediment good for farming, the official state soil.
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On the way home from Williamsburg, on March 16, he stopped at White House, an estate on the Pamunkey River and home to an acquaintance, the richest widow in Virginia, Martha Dandridge Custis, just a year older than he was.
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
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On the way home from Williamsburg, on March 16, he stopped at White House, an estate on the Pamunkey River and home to an acquaintance, the richest widow in Virginia, Martha Dandridge Custis, just a year older than he was.
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
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On the way home from Williamsburg, on March 16, he stopped at White House, an estate on the Pamunkey River and home to an acquaintance, the richest widow in Virginia, Martha Dandridge Custis, just a year older than he was.
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
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On the way home from Williamsburg, on March 16, he stopped at White House, an estate on the Pamunkey River and home to an acquaintance, the richest widow in Virginia, Martha Dandridge Custis, just a year older than he was.
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
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I made Columbia on the 10th, and from there sent a communication to General Grant reporting what had occurred, informing him of my condition and intention, asking him to send forage and rations to meet me at the White House, and also a pontoon-bridge to carry me over the Pamunkey, for in view of the fact that hitherto it had been impracticable to hold Lee in the trenches around Petersburg,
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Torbert started for Taylor's ford on the Pamunkey with directions to demonstrate heavily at that point till after dark, as if the crossing was to be made there, and having thus impressed the enemy, he was to leave a small guard, withdraw quietly, and march to Hanovertown ford, where the real crossing was to be effected.
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From this party I soon learned that there was no occasion to push our jaded animals, since the crisis, if there had been one, was over and the enemy repulsed, so the increased gait was reduced to a leisurely march that took us late in the afternoon to the north bank of the Pamunkey, opposite Abercrombie's camp.
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