The Lower House. 367

dians mixt with them Remaining Sole masters and possessors
of that town and the adjacent parts upon Nanticoke River as
a Reserve made by the Government to that Nation, seeing
that we do not find any Lands since the Year 1672 have been
Survey'd within the Bounds of that Large tract of Land
untill very Lately by Cap^t Rider and others, but that the said
Land remained as a possession and territory to the Nanti-
coke Indians for by the Articles of Peace made with Unna-
kocasimmon upon March the 28^th 1678 after a Second Rup-
ture with the Nanticokes it was then Stipulated in the 6^th 9^th
and 10^th Articles that whatever Servants, and Slaves or
Strange Indians should be Entertained in the Town Domin-
ions or Territories of the said Emperour that the first should
be apprehended and Carried to the first English Plantation
and that the Emperor himself should be Answerable for all
Mischiefs perpetrated by the Latter, and further that the
said Unnacokasimraon Should Yearly and every Year upon
the Twentieth day of Octo^r pay four Indian Arrows as an
Acknowledgment to his Lordship and as a token of the Con-
tinuance of Peace. This proves an Alotment or General
Reserve of Land to have been made to the Nanticoak Indians
as it is Imply'd by the Word Acknowledgment Although the
Bounds thereof were not particularly agreed upon.
But upon Complaints of Incroachments Oppression and
other Injurys done to those Indians, as it is Exprest in the
Act of 1698 for ascertaining the Bounds of a Tract of Land
for the use of the Nanticoke Indians, The Legislature then
took the Affair in hand and by an act Ascertained very par-
ticularly the Extent of that Dominion and Territories above
Mentioned thereby to Secure peace and Tranquility to this
province by Redressing the Discontents of those people, least
following the Example of the Pascattaway and other Indians
on the Western Shoar who were at the same time Retired
back into the Mountains upon Some discontent about their
Town Lands made frequent Incursions among the out plan-
tations which did Oblige the Government to Maintain at a
Vast Expence very great Numbers of Rangers for Protect-
ing the back Inhabitants of Prince Georges and Baltemore
Counties from the Insults of those Savages.

L. H. J.

This Committee is further of Opinion that it was through
an Apprehencon of the Like Mischiefs from the Eastern
Shore Indians which facilitated the passing the Above men-
tioned Act of Assembly Rather then any design in the Legis-
lature of making the English proprietors of Lands within
the Indian Bounds Easey, or through any Expectation of
those Indians Desserting or Leaving the Place as it is falsely
Suggested by Cap^t Rider for the Same Motives appear after-

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