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Injurys done them by the English removed higher up the
River about twenty Years agoe and not in the Year 1722
to A place Called broad Creek which was afterwards in the
Year 1711 purchased for them by the Country as further
provision for those Indians as appears by An Act of Assem-
bly made for that purpose whereby it is Evident that the
Nanticoke Indians by their Removal and Settlement at broad
Creek did not Desert nor leave their Town at Chicacoan
Creek as it is Insinauted in the Case Seeing broad Creek
town (to which most of the Nanticoke Indians had retired)
was Intended by the Legislature to [be] a further provision
and relief to them against Injurys done them by the English
whilst the Choptank Indians with another part of the Nanti-
cokes remained at Chicacoan and so Continued to do not-
withstanding Incroachments of the English and other
Injurys done them of which they frequently Complained
still Asserting their right to Chicacoan town as by a Com-

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plaint personally Exhibited to the two houses of Assembly
in the year 1719 by Panquash and Anatocom chiefs of the
Nanticoke Indians against a certain Roger Fowler praying
he might be removed from thence It was ordered thereupon
that Roger Fowler do remove from off the Indian Land by the
January following as he will Answer the Contrary at his peril
and again by the Journall of 1721 it appears that the Nanti-
coke and Choptank Indians Complain of Incroachments
made by the Inhabitants of Dorchester County and pray
redress therein from this Government.
By all which it appears to this Comittee that the Indian
titles to the Lands at Chicacoan did not anywise determine
according to the purport and true meaning of the provisoe
in the Act mentioned by their removing twenty miles higher
up the River for that in November 1721 Coll^o Richard Tilgh-
man and Matthew Tilghman Ward two of the Comissioners
appointed by Act of Assembly for resurveying and Ascer-
taining the Indians bounds did see Sundry corn fields in the
Chicacoan town as they Informed this Comittee tho' most
of the Indians being then gone out to their Hunting Quarters
according to their usual practice Except William Asquash
the late Emperors Son who had a handsome Settlement and
a good Corn field fenced after the English manner and pos-
sibly fixed there by the Indians with Design to hold pos-
session, as was Edward Wright also who in the Deposition
of Thomas Abbot amongst Capt" Riders papers Marked
D. D. is Declared to be a Tennant to the Nanticoke In-
dians and therefore no Desertion or leaving the place within
the Intention of the Provisoe in the Act of 1698 altho the

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