The AngloPowhatan Wars Hostile_encounter were three wars Hostile_encounter fought Hostile_encounter between settlers of the Virginia Colony and Algonquin Indians of the Powhatan Confederacy in the early seventeenth century .

French , Algonquin , and Abenaki warriors under the command of Jean-Baptiste Hertel de Rouville descended on Motion_directional Haverhill , then a small frontier community in the Province of Massachusetts Bay .

The British colonists were supported Supporting at various times by the Iroquois , Catawba , and Cherokee tribes , and the French colonists were supported by Wabanaki Confederacy member tribes Abenaki and Mi'kmaq , and the Algonquin , Lenape , Ojibwa , Ottawa , Shawnee , and Wyandot tribes .