Wingina (Pemisapan)
Werowance (chief) of the people of Roanoke Island and the nearby mainland, who later took the name Pemisapan. He was killed when the English attacked his town of Dasamonquepeuc on June 1, 1586 (Old Style).
d. 1586
The Sickness That Followed the English
Thomas Harriot, A Brief and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia (London, 1588; Frankfurt, 1590), on the colony's year at Roanoke, 1585–1586 · events of 1585–1586; first printed London, dated February 1588 (February 1589 in our calendar); reprinted Frankfurt 1590
Insomuch that when some of the inhabitants which were our friends & especially the Wiroans Wingina had obserued such effects in foure or fiue towns to follow their wicked practises, they were perswaded that it was the worke of our God through our meanes, and that wee by him might kil and slai whom wee would without weapons and not come neere them.
Some of the inhabitants were our friends. When they, and especially the Wiroans Wingina, had seen such effects follow their wicked plots in four or five towns, they were convinced that it was the work of our God through us. They believed that through him we could kill and slay whomever we wished without weapons, and without coming near them.