366 Assembly Proceedings, October 6-November 6, 1725.

L. H. J.

by the Lieutenant Generall Willed and Required that no In-
habitants of this Province should take up nor Seat any Lands
Tho' formerly taken up within three Miles at least of those
Indian Habitations, as in Lib. H. H. page 190.
The Disturbance and Encroachments of the English upon
the Town Lands and Settlements of the Eastern Shore In-
dians, was likewise found of Mischievous Consequence, and
therefore Restrained in Severall places in Somersett County
and at Chicowan in Dorchester County by a proclamation of
the Lord Prop^ry Anno 1678, Importing that his Lordship
would advise with the two Houses at the Next Gen^rl Sessions
of Assembly and that no person or persons whatsoever should
presume to Seat live or Inhabit within three Miles of the In-
dian Lands. The like had been ordered in Councell Ten Years
before in Relation to the Indian Lands at Mattawoman and
Piscattoway Creek where a Reserve had been made for them
between those two Creeks. This Committee further Ob-
serves that the prohibition of Surveying and Seating Lands
within three Miles distance of any Indian Town was the Con-
stant practice of this Government both before and after the
Survey of the two tracts of Land Mentioned in Cap^t Riders
Case and altho not Specifically apply'd to the Nanticoake
Indians and the Subjects of that Emperor as in Lib: R: R:
page 165 untill 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 Earliest prohibitions and puts the Surveying
of all Indian Lands under the same Restrictions and Limi-
tations, that is at the perill of the taker up, for Notwithstand-
ing that we Cannot find any particular tract of Land Laid
out to the Use of those Nanticoak Indians, Yet it appears
plainly by Articles of Peace with the Emperor that a Gen-
erall Reserve or Allottment had been granted them at Chic-
cowan Creek and the parts adjacent Ten Years before for
it is the second Article in the Treatie of Peace Concluded

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with those Indians upon May the I^st 1668, In Lib: H. H.
fol 296 that Unnacokasimmon Emperor of Nanticoak should
deliver up the whole Nation of the Wicomises, at Siccacoan
Town and all those Indians who protected the Murtherers
of Cap^t Odbur. This Wiccomises Town appears to have been
tributary to the Nanticoke Emperor, who either lived at the
same place in a Distinct Town, as usuall Amongst those
People or in the parts adjacent thereunto, for in the same
Year Either by the Assistance or Connivance of the said Em-
peror the Canton of the Wicomiss Nation was wholy Exter-
pated after which time it is very Reasonable to believe that
Unnakocasimmon with his Subjects and Confederate In-