Tatacoope, "Weroance of the Tapahanock"

Not the same as Susan Worsham

Tatacoope (also spelled Tatahcoope and Tatacope) was a young Native American boy in 1610/1611 in Tsenacommacah, Virginia, British Colonial America. His mother was Oholasc, Weroansqua of Coiacohanauke, also known as Tapahanock, Quiyoughcohanock, a member tribe of the Powhatan Confederacy, located on the south shore of the James River. Paramount Chief Powhatan removed the former chief Pipisco for grievances against his brother and installed Oholasc as Chief/Regent with Tatacoope to become weroance of the village once he came of age. It is believed that Powhatan was his father, and Tatacoope was the half-brother of Pocahontas. Nothing more is known about the young boy, not when he was born or when he died or even if he ever actually ascended to become weroance.

"Oholasc, queene of Coiacohanauke, which we comonly (though corruptly) call Tapahanock, and is the same which Captain Smith, in his mapp, calls Quiyoughcohanock, on the south shoare, or Salisbury syde, whose sonne, being yet younge, shal be, by Powhatan's appointment, weroance of the said Quiyoughcohanock: his name is Tatahcoop. The weroance Pepiscummah (whome by construction as well the Indians as we call Pipisco) was somtyme possessed in right of this part, as by birth and possession discended the true and lawfull weroance of the same, but upon a displeasure which Powhatan conceaved against him, in that the said Pipisco, and that not many yeares synce, had stollen away a chief woman from Opechankeno (one of Powhatan's brothers), he was deposed from that regiment, and the aforesaid Tatacope (a supposed sonne of Powhatan's, by this said Queene Oholasc) made weroance, who, being yet young (as is said), is for the most part in the government of Chopoke, at Chawopo, one of Pipiscoe's brothers; " - from 'The Historie of Travaile Into Virginia Britannia' by William Strachey https://archive.org/details/historietravail00majogoog/page/n116/mod...
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From page 12 of The Cradle of the Republic: Jamestown and James River By Lyon Gardiner Tyler

The neighbors of the Warrascoyacks were the Quiyoughcohanocks, whose territory extended through Surry and Prince George counties. The werowance was Pepiscumah, called for short Pipisco, who kept on good terms with the whites. However, in 1610, he had been deposed by Powhatan, and one of Powhatan's wives, Oholasc, was queen in the minority of her son Tatacope, who lived at Chawopo with Chopoke one of Pipisco's brothers.2 Quiyoughcohanock was on Upper Chippokes Creek, near the present Claremont.

• 1 Smith, Works (Arbor's ed.). 346.
• 2 Strachey, Travaile into Virginia, page 57 In Surry County there was a plantation near " Four Mile Tree," called Pipsico, probably an adaptation of Pipisco.
• 3Tooker, Some Powhatan Names, in American Anthropologist (N. S.), VI., No. v.

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According to Shawnee Heritage IV, entry 222, she was full sister to Metha (Mehta) Powhatan, and a daughter of Ponnoiske Quiquoghcohannock. But nothing else is known about her. While Powhatan did have a child by that name (Tahacope/Tatcoope), it was a son of whom nothing further is known.