 The settlement was from "Werowocomoco", capital of the Powhatan Confederacy.In the mid-16th and early 17th century, the Algonquian-speaking Kiskiack tribe, part of the large Powhatan Confederacy, was located near the south bank of the York River on the Virginia Peninsula, which extended into the Chesapeake Bay.The present-day city of Yorktown developed a few miles east of here.