I am the Heir to Powhatan’s Seat and rightful Monarch of Virginia
I am the heir to Powhatan’s Seat, the ancestral homeland of the Powhatan people. In addition to this lineage, there lies a contentious claim that I am the rightful monarch of Virginia.
As the heir to Powhatan’s Seat, I possess a direct link to the historical leadership and sovereignty of the Powhatan people in the region that would later become Virginia.
I am also one of the few people who can trace their ancestry back to the original Powhatan people, the tribe of Pocahontas and its royal family.
Peter H. Mayo & His Colored Half-Brother
“Powhatan Stone. An old Indian stone removed from and now overlooking “Powhatan Seat” a royal residence of King Powhatan when Captain John Smith and his fellow “adventurers ” made the first permanent English settlement in this country at Jamestown, Virginia 1607.
“Powhatan Seat” was the residence from 1726–1865 of the ancestors of Peter H. Mayo by whose daughters this stone was presented to the association for the preservation of Virginia Antiquities.
The Mayo’s of Richmond lost Powhatan’s Seat the same year slavery was abolished in the United States.
Peter H[elms] Mayo was born in 1836. Virginia locals say that he was born in Powhatan County, Virginia.
My third great-grandfather, Morris Mayo, was born about 1828 in Powhatan County, Virginia. Making him the very likely Colored bastard Peter’s father Robert Atkinson Mayo of Powhatan’s Seat.
The significance of mentioning their shared birthplace is that there were no slave owners with the surname Mayo in Powhatan County. Also, Morris received the name Morris as a first name. Morris is a Virginia bastard name for a Welsh-sounding Native American or Indigenous person.
So, it appears that Morris’ most likely relation to Peter H. Mayo is half-brother, nephew, cousin — or, even uncle.
Although the Mayo family purchased Powhatan’s Seat, they are English and not indigenous to Virginia. However, Morris Mayo was designated as a Colored person by the State of Virginia, which is very significant.
The Final Native American Genocide in Virginia
In 1924, the State of Virginia decided to edit the birth certificates of Native Americans, changing their racial designation from “Indian” to “Colored” if they had more than 1/16 African ancestry.
Colored persons and Indians defined. — Every person in whom there is ascertainable any negro blood shall be deemed and taken to be a colored person, and every person not a colored person having one-fourth or more of American Indian blood shall be deemed an American Indian; except that members of Indian tribes living on reservations allotted them by the Commonwealth of Virginia having one-fourth or more of Indian blood and less than one-sixteenth of negro blood shall be deemed tribal Indians so long as they are domiciled on said reservations. Citizens and Aliens — Elections By The People
If you were less than 1/16 African — somehow this is being tracked despite the dearth of slave records — and 1/4 or more Native American, and you lived on a reservation, you could be legally called a Native American.
In 1930, the General Assembly officially updated the Racial Integrity Act to define a “colored” person as anyone who holds even “one drop” of “negro blood.” As far as Plecker was concerned, this meant that all Native Americans in Virginia would now be identified as “colored.” Any birth certificates predating 1924 that identified a person as “Indian” were overwritten as “colored,” as assigned by the state. His racist investigations and practices were comprehensive, issuing lists of surnames descendant from “free negroes” to be used in the racial identification of “colored” persons. — The Racial Integrity Act, 1924: An Attack on Indigenous Identity
This means that any Virginian classified as Colored should be considered 1/8 or less of Indigenous American ancestry.
Although some Native American Nations count blood quantum, it is important to distinguish the descendants of indigenous Americans from recent immigrants.
Thomas Jefferson Usurps the American Throne
Morris Mayo’s daughter Susan Ann Mayo married Thomas Jefferson’s colored grandson George Morris.[1] Susan was born in Tabasco, Mexico.
[Left] shows more of the Mayo family. Lovely to note that George Mayo, himself a bastard of the Richmond Mayos, married a Randolph bastard named Ann. Making her a cousin to Thomas Jefferson.[2]
[Right] is Morris JR.’s internment card for the Richmond, Virginia National Cemetery. Morris was a World War I veteran.[3]
[Left] is my Mexican second great-grandmother Susan’s marriage to Thomas Jefferson’s grandson George Morris, who died in 1928, Richmond, Virginia as shown on the right.[4]
Thomas Jefferson states in his “Notes on the State of Virginia” that the Mayo’s of the Powhatan tribe had 40 warriors in 1607 when Captain John Smith, the man who married Pocahontas, arrived in Virginia, just 2 years before the First Anglo-Powhatan War. They had only 10 warriors left in 1669.[5]
The origin of the surname Mayo for the Powhatan of Powhatan, proper (Henrico County, Virginia) is unknown.
The English Mayo family from Barbados held Powhatan’s Seat from 1726 to 1865.
Reconsidering the Legitimacy of the United States
Persistent inequalities, social injustices, and systemic discrimination against Indigenous peoples underscore the continuing legacy of colonization and challenge the moral authority of the United States as a just and legitimate state.
This includes the labeling of Native Americans as Colored, instead of recognizing their tribal sovereignty over their ancestral homelands. This was the white collar genocide of the Indigenous people of Virginia.[6][7]
Treaties made between Indigenous nations and the United States government, moreover, have often been disregarded, violated, or unilaterally abrogated, undermining the credibility of the United States as a lawful entity.
Indigenous nations have long-standing claims to sovereignty and territorial rights based on their historical occupancy and stewardship of the land, raising questions about the legality of land acquisitions and dispossession.
Reexamining the legitimacy of the United States in light of Indigenous presence is not only a legal imperative but also a moral imperative, reflecting the nation’s commitment to justice, human rights, and the rule of law.
Reconsidering the legitimacy of the United States requires a commitment to justice, equity, and reconciliation, as well as meaningful engagement with Indigenous communities to address the historical legacy of colonization and advance Indigenous rights and self-determination.
Is there an Indigenous Monarch for every State in the US?
The Powhatan were the only Native American tribe in North America with a royal family. This makes their culture more similar to the Inca, Aztecs, and Maya of Mexico, Peru, and Central America.
My closest equivalent is a man named Alfredo Inca Roca of Peru who has documentation, a parchment signed in 1545 by the Holy Roman emperor Carlos V, that traces his family back to the last Inca emperor, Atahualpa, executed by Francisco Pizarro in 1533.[8]
We are the Native American equivalent of Eduard Hapsburg, the third great-grandson of Emperor Franz Joseph I.[9]
