likely joined with nearby existing Indian groups such as the Doegs, Nanzaticos, and Portobagos. (7) In 1680, King Pattanochus signs the Treaty of Middle Plantation of behalf of the Nansatiocoes, Nanzemunds, and Portabacchoes . By this time, displaced Patawomecks are living among these groups of people. (8) In 1692, A reference to payment for Rangers in Stafford County notes the presence of two Indians belonging to Stafford in the detachment, illustrating the continued presence within the area of Patawomeck ancestors. (9) Through most of the 1700s the Patawomeck community lived in the Northern Neck, moving as necessary. Portions of the community settled near the area known as Indian Town in modern-day King George County. (10) In 1789, White Oak church was established. This church, which still stands, became a significant space that facilitated the continued interaction of members of the Patawomeck community who attended well into the 1900s and used the regular meeting opportunities as venues to pass down and maintain Tribal knowledge and traditions, meet suitable Patawomeck marriage partners, and conduct business in formal and informal ways. Generations of Patawomeck ancestors account for the vast majority of the interments in the cemetery, including members with the surnames of Newton, Green, Curtis, Jett, and Monteith. (11) By the early 1800s, the majority of the Patawomeck community had again coalesced in the area of Stafford County known as White Oak, with some members living in nearby Passapatanzy, in King George County, only a few miles from the locations of their ancestral villages, dating back to the 1300s. (12) In 1832, Wahanganoche’s badge was found at Camden, in Caroline County, a well-known location of coalescent Indian communities and the likely location of a portion of the Patawomeck community in the late 1600s. (13) During the United States Civil War, vandalism, courthouse fires, and other disasters destroy many of the records within the Stafford and King George County courthouses, serving to