Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1667-75. 65

[Petition of Pascatoways.]

Iuly 20^th 1670/
Came Monatquund Speaker of Piscattoway Unnacawsey
Mappassanough Councillors of Piscattoway to Philip Calvert
and William Calvert Esq^re deputy Lieutenants of this Province
of Maryland
And said they came to revive the League between the said
Pascattoway Indians and the English and first in the name of
the Boys, next in the name of the elder Persons that they
might eat drink Sleep and play in quiet, the women, in
like manner, desire the peace, acknowledging the Lord
Proprietary for their Lord and Protector, next the old men
desire it that they may sleep by their wives quietly and take
their Tobacco: that they had not long presented any thing
and that now they came to keep in memory the peace that
now they are reduced to a small Number and therefore they

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cannot present any thing Considerable, Lastly from the miser-
able Poor they desire that hereafter when their Nation may be
reduced to nothing perhaps they may not be Scorned and
Chased out of our Protection
To which was answered by the deputy Lieutenants that as
they desired to Continue in Amity with us so did we Assure
them that we should not break the Articles made & Confirm'd
by Act of Assembly between the Lord Proprietary and them
and that we do hope they will be mindful and wary to preserve
every of the said Articles and that so long we should not
scorn or Cast of the meanest of them
Was then moved by the Deputy Lieutenants to have the
Indian that stroke Benjamin Price delivered there being a
Great doubt that the said Price died of the Blow to which they
replied that Price died not of the Blow but was in health
twenty days after and that the said Prire was swimming and
diving in the presence of M^r Chandlers Children at Port
Tobacco and came out of the water sick of an Ague and
vomited and of the said sickness died whereupon the Deputy
Lieutenants desired to speak with the Emperor the last day of
October together with his Council at S^t Marys
To which the Speaker answered the Emperor was at the
Sasquehanoughs and that it was not in his Power to promise
that he should come but for Clearing the Business desired the
head might be Searched
Whereupon it is Ordered that Iohn Stansley and Iohn Peerce
Chyuirgeons do view the head upon monday the Eighth of
August and that Monatquund be present and that the Chyuir-
geons Certify what their opinions are touching the death of
the said Price

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