Int. Did you trade with or receive any thing from the
Nanjatico Indians ?
Ind. Noe, I saw some Roanoake and a White Matchcoate
in the boate
Int. Nothing else ?
Ind. I saw nothing more, Coll Spencer also went downe
to the boate and saw what they had.
Int. how long were yee with the Nanjatico Indians ?
Ind. The Nanjatico Indians made noe stay
Int. Saw you them goe away ?
Ind. Yes and they went up the River towards Mattox
Towne
Int. how long since yee came from Coll Spencers?
Ind. About six Daies since
Int. Whither went yee from thence ?
Ind. to a Creeke hard by the Shipp, where we were taken
Int. What is become of your Gunn ?
Ind. I had none, I frequent not the woods, onely make
Canooes.
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Int. What doe you with powder and shott shott bag and
horne ?
Ind: kill a Deare now and then when I cann borrow a
Gunn
Int. When you came over there were seene more padlers
of you then now are found
Ind: We were noe more in Company but us three men,
three weomen and two Children with our burdens
Love Jones a woman called and required to view the
Examinant Declares that she saw him about a moneth since
at Point Locke out with some more Indians being Eleaven in
number in a new boate goeing over to Nanticoke as they told
her
Int. This woman knows you
Ind. She knowes me not, what Clothes had I
Wom: a blew Coate and I asked the Indians what they
had in their baggs and they told me Pokoone roots for paint-
ing Stuffe for the Eastern shore Indians
Quaer, of Arthur Thompson then present about what time
Did the Indians make your Canooe.
Thompson, about three weekes since for wch he gave a blew
Matchcoate and they went over into Virginia
Worn: I Doe verily beleive this to be one of the Indians I
saw in the boate at point Lookeout he had his hair then close
cutt round onely at the edges which made me looke very
stedfastly on him, they then pulled a paper out of their bagg
and asked me if I could read, I said yes and told them it was
a pass, where to they answered Yes a pass.
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