Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1681-85/6. 11

And it being customary in treateing with the said Indians
upon every Article to make presents, ordered that M^r John

Stone of Charles County Supply the said Commissioners
according to the foll precepts, viz.
By the Lord Prop^ry & Councill
Maryland Ss
Whereas the R^t hon^ble the Lord Prop^ry of this Province hath
by his Commission beareing Date with this Authorised and
Empowered Coll Henry Coursey and Coll William Stevens
of his Councill to be Commission^rs to speake and treate with
the Northern Indians now at or neere the Zachaiah ffort in
order to make and confirm a peace with them
Ordered that M^r John Stone of Charles County Supply the
said Commissioners or either of them or whom they or either
of them shall appoint to Receive the same with what Duffelds
or Tradeing Cloth they shall think fitt for the occasion. To
be made good again to the said Stone by the R^t hon^ble the
Lord Prop^ry in kind. Dated the four and twentieth Day of
August in the Sixth yeare of the Dominion of the R^t hon^ble
Charles &^c Annoq Dmi 1681 :
Signed p ord^r
p John Llewellin Cl Consil

The Examination of Chotikeswife taken before his L^spp and
Councill in the upper house of Assembly the 24^th Day of
August 1681: and ordered to be Entred in the Councill booke
viz.
She saith that a Nanjatico Indian named Nenheeman the
last Kings Sonn One who was guilty of the murder committed
at Point Looke out came to Captain Bridges's in Virginia
about six weekes since, where she and her husband Chotike
then was, and told her what should she stay with this fellow
for (meaneing her husband) lett her goe along with him, the

Liber R.

English were naught and Chotike was naught too all one as
the English, and she would be killed if she stayed there, for that
they would kill the English and them too, soe she had better
goe along with him and be his wife, and he gave her a belt of
Peake and she went with him to the Towne, where she asked
him why the English were naught ? and wherefore they would
kill them ? oh said he they are all naught & I have killed some
already a greate while agoe and some not long since at Point
Looke out, he himself had killed two men and a woman, and
a One Eyed Indian had killed two men more, he further told
her that the English had made him loose his father, and he
would alwayes kill them as long as he lived, that the English
were all as Weomen and he could kill them as easily as
weomen, that after he had told her this he threatned to kill

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