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of that Empire as in Liber R. R. page 165 until the year 1678
and after the time of taking the said two Tracts of Land
yet the Circumstances being the same their Case Doth very
naturally fall within the reason of those Earlyest Prohibi-
tions and puts the Surveying of all Indian lands under the
same restrictions and Limitations that is at the peril of the
taker up for notwithstanding that we cannot find any particu-
lar tract of Land laid out to the use of those Nanticoke In-
dians yet it appears plainly by Articles of peace with the Em-
peror that a General reserve or Allotment had been Granted
them at Chicacoan Creek and the parts Adjacent ten years be-
fore for it is the second Article in the treaty of peace Con-
cluded with those Indians upon May the first 1668 in Liber
H. H. folio 296 " that Unnacokasimmon Emperor of Nanti-
coke should Deliver up the whole nation of the Wiccomisses
at Siccacoan town and all those Indians who protected the
Murderers of Captain Odbur." This Wiccomiss town appears
to have been tributary to the Nanticoke Emperor who either
lived at the same place in a Distinct town as usual amongst
those people or in the parts Adjacent thereunto for in the
Same year either by the Assistance or Conivance of the said
Emperor the Canton of the Wiccomise Nation was wholly
Exterpated after which time it is very reasonable to believe
that Unnacokasimmon with his Subjects & Confederate In-
dians mixt with them remained Sole Masters and possessors
of that town and the Adjacent parts upon Nanticoke river,
as a reserve made by the Government to the nation seeing that
we do not find any Lands since the year 1672 have been Sur-
veyed within the Bounds of that large tract of Land until
very lately by Capt Rider and others but that the said
Lands remained as a possession and Territory to the Nanti-
coke Indians for by the Articles of Peace made with Unna-
cokasimmon upon March the 28^th 1678 after a second Rup-
ture with the Nanticokes it was then stipulated in the Sixth
Ninth and Tenth Articles that whatever runaway Servants
& Slaves or Strange Indians should be Entertained in the

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Towns Dominions or Territorys of the said Emperror that
the first should be apprehended and carry'd to the first Eng-
lish plantation and that the Emperror himself should be
answerable for all Mischiefs perpetrated by the Latter. And
further that the said Unnacokasimmon should yearly and
every year upon the twentieth day of October pay four Indian
Arrows as an acknowledgm^t to his Lordship and as a token
of the Continuance of peace. This proves an Allowment
or General reserve of Land to have been made to the Nan-
ticoke Indians as it is Implyd by the word Acknowledgment

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