We won’t rush past it. Today is about everything that happened in between — and about a question worth contemplating as we continue: an agreement nobody wrote down, between two exhausted sides who trusted it for very different reasons — what actually holds a peace like that together?

References

Primary/Period Sources

•Wyatt’s April 1622 letter to the Virginia Company (referenced for continuity; primary text of the 1635 petition against Harvey citing his Powhatan peace as a grievance)

•1649 estimate of Opechancanough’s age (“nearly 100”), as preserved via Encyclopedia Virginia’s timeline

•Martha McCartney, Virginia Immigrants and Adventurers, 1607–1635 — source for the 1634 population figure (~4,900)