Virginia Colony (March 22, 1622) was able to avert a threatened Indian attack due to the warning of a young Indian named "Chanco." On Jamestown Island, Virginia, the church marker stated:
<In memory of Chanco, an Indian youth converted to Christianity, who resided in the household of Richard Pace across the river from Jamestown and who, on the eve of the Indian massacre of March 22, 1622, warned Pace of the murderous plot thus enabling Pace to cross the river in a canoe to alert and save the Jamestown settlement from impending disaster.> 1622VA001
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1622VA001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Virginia, March 22, 1622, Marker within reconstructed interior of original church, Jamestown Island, Virginia, commemorating a young Indian named "Chanco."