Complex sentence: The English explorer Captain John Smith first visited the upper Potomac River in 1608, and he recorded the Piscataway by the name Moyaons, after their "king's house", i.e., capital village or Tayac's residence, also spelled "Moyaone".
Split into simpler sentences: The English explorer Captain John Smith first visited the upper Potomac River in 1608. He recorded the Piscataway by the name Moyaons, after their "king's house", i.e., capital village or Tayac's residence, also spelled "Moyaone".