Kittamaqundi

Kittamaqundi
Piscataway village
Piscataway Creek
Piscataway Creek
Country United States of America
State Maryland
County Prince George's
Government
 • TayacKittamaquund
Population
 (2013)
 • Estimate 
()
Disbanded
Time zoneUTC-5 (EST)
 • Summer (DST)UTC-4 (EDT)

38°42′06″N 77°02′36″W / 38.701786°N 77.043445°W / 38.701786; -77.043445

Manuscript prayers written between 1634 and 1640 in English, Latin, and Piscataway in the hand of Andrew White SJ, the first Catholic missionary to the Maryland colony. In the blank Pages of an Edition of Manuale sacerdotum hoc est, ritus administrandi sacramenta. Printed in Douai 1610. In the Lauinger Library, University of Georgetown

Around 1622, the Piscataway tribe, which led the Conoy Federation, built a town they soon called Kittamaqundi on Piscataway Creek near the modern day town of Piscataway, Prince George's County, Maryland.[1][2][3] When English first visited the town, in 1634, they learned it was named after the relatively new Tayac (Emperor) Kittamaquund, who had assumed power the previous year after killing his brother Wannas.[4]

  1. ^ Maryland: A History of Its People. p. 10.
  2. ^ Jordan E. Kerber. Cross-cultural Collaboration: Native Peoples and Archaeology in the Northeastern United States. p. 115.
  3. ^ Sharon Malinowski. The Gale Encyclopedia of Native American Tribes: Northeast, Southeast, Caribbean. p. 249.
  4. ^ Daniel S. Murphree. Native America: A State-by-state Historical Encyclopedia, Volume 1. p. 487.