Weroance
Parahunt
(Taux)
"Tanx, Little Powhatan, Weroance of the Powhatan Tribe"
Powhatan
Born in Powhatan Confederacy
Ancestors 
Son of Wahunsenaca Powhatan
[uncertain]
and [mother unknown]
Brother of
Nantaquod Powhatan, Matachanna Powhatan, Cleopatra Powhatan, Tatahcoope Powhatan [half], Amonute Matoaka (Powhatan) Rolfe and Pochins Powhatan
[spouse(s) unknown]
[children unknown]
Died after
after age 25
in Virginia
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Biography
William Strachey wrote of Parahunt in his "Historie"
- Parahunt, one of Powhatan's sonnes, whome we therefore call Tanxpowatan, which is as much to say Little Powhatan, and is weroance of the country which hath his owne name, called Powhatan, lying (as before mencioned) close under the Falls, bordering the Monacans, and he maye at the present be furnished with fifty fighting and ready men. [1]
In 1609, following a conflict in which half of Parahunt's 120 warriors were killed, an English teenager named Henry Spelman was sent to live with Parahunt. Spelman stayed with Parahunt only a few weeks. Spelman later wrote his own history of Virginia, and his account can be found transcribed at Virtual Jamestown. [2]
The "Encyclopedia Virginia" describes Parahunt as Powhatan's brother, not his son. [3]
Sources
- ↑ Strachey, William. The Historie of Travaile Into Virginia Brittania. London, 1626, reprint The Hakluyt Society, 1849. Image at archive.com Parahunt
- ↑ Spelman
- ↑ Parahunt
See also:
- Opechancanough-Uncle to Pocahontas on GenForum
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Fausz, J. Frederick. An Abundance of Blood Shed on Both Sides: England's First Indian War, 1609-1614. The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, vol. 98, no. 1, 1990, pp. 356. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/4249117.
To find the relationship we searched for an ancestor shared by both Parahunt Powhatan and Norm Sykes.
Knowing the first common ancestor, Wahunsenacawh Powhatan, and knowing the name of the relationship between Wahunsenacawh and Parahunt, and the name of the relationship between Wahunsenacawh and Norm, we can use a family relationship table to name the relationship, i.e. Norm is Parahunt's 11th great grand nephew.
The relationship trail:
Parahunt is the daughter of Wahunsenacawh Powhatan. Wahunsenacawh is the father of Parahunt. Norm is the son of Mary M. Sykes. Mary is the daughter of William B. Murray. William is the son of Carrie H. Murray. Carrie is the daughter of Mary I. Braly. Mary is the daughter of Benjamin F. White. Benjamin is the son of Mary White. Mary is the daughter of Isabella Hardeman. Isabella is the daughter of Mary H. Hardeman. Mary is the daughter of Nicholas H. Perkins. Nicholas is the son of Anne Perkins. Anne is the daughter of Ann Pollard. Ann is the daughter of Princess Nicketti Powhatan. Princess is the daughter of Cleopatra Powhatan. Cleopatra is the daughter of Wahunsenacawh Powhatan. Wahunsenacawh is the 12th great grandfather of Norm.