In 1727, the Meherrin suffered an assault on their town; 12 or 14 Meherrin were killed and the son of Chief Robin King was taken prisoner. In the government’s investigation of the matter it is recorded: I had a conference with all their great men upon the subject of your letter. They all in general utterly deny that they have any quarrel with the Nottoway Indians, or ever suspected them of having any hand in the attack that was lately made upon their nation, and Captain Rogers, who is their chief man, says that he has no doubt of the Nottoway friendship – having his mother’s sister and several of her children grown up, now living with these people. They laid the whole blame on the Old Occoneechy King and the Saponi Indians… (Palmer et al.: 214)