Tuckahoe and Cohee

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Cohee and Tuckahoe were terms applied to people of Colonial Virginia to differentiate original English settlers in eastern Virginia (Tuckahoes) from German, Irish, and Scotch-Irish in the Shenandoah Valley (Cohees).[1]

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  1. ^ Seaman, Catherine H. C. (1992). Tuckahoes and Cohees: the settlers and cultures of Amherst and Nelson Counties, 1607-1807. Sweet Briar College.
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