Nottoway River derives its name from the Indian tribe and the county honors both.
The Chowanoc and Nottoway and other cognate tribes adjoining the Tuscarora may have been offshoots from that tribe.
The Nottoway was higher than the Rappahannock is to-night, and you did not expect to meet me again—so soon!
From beyond the woods came the hollow roar of the Nottoway, which was swollen by a freshet.
By 1674 some of the colonists had crossed this line and were settling on the territory of the Nottoway Indians.
