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

L. H. J.

wards to have obtained with the Legislature Viz: Anno
Seventeen hundred and Eleven in making the purchase of
Three thousand Acres of Land for the same Indians at Broad
Creek at a Conjunction when the Troubles of the Indians at
Carowlina put them in mind of the necessary Measures of
Quieting the Minds of our Indians then Sowered by the fre-
quent Injuries done them by the English and particularly by
turning Horses into their Corn fields
Having thus Represented the Right of the Indians to their
Town Lands and particularly that of the Nanticokes to the
Chiccacon Town, we proceed in the next to Examine the
Allegacons of Cap^t Rider with Regard to the Dissertion of
that Town it being alledged in his Case that the Nanticoke
Indians in the Spring 1722 not only Omitted the planting of
Corn on the said Lands but broke down and burnt their
fences and Removed to a place twenty Miles higher up Nan-
ticoke River.
This seems to look Something like a Desertion and leaving
the places according to the words of the Act if the facts al-
ledged had been true but uponlnquirey into the Matter we find
that the Nanticoke Indians upon some Disgust through In-
juries 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 a further provision for
those Indians as appears by an Act of Assembly made for that
purpose whereby it is Evident that the Nanticoke Indians by
their Removall and Settlement at Broad Creek did not Disert
nor Leave their Town at Chiccacon Creek as it is Insinuated
in the Case Seeing the Broad Creek Town to which most of
the Nanticoke Indians had retired was Intended by the Legis-
lature to be a further provision and Relief to them, Against
Injuries done them by the English whilst the Choptank In-
dians with another part of the Nanticokes Remained at
Chiccacan and so Continued to do notwithstanding Incroach-
ments of the English and other Injuries done them of which
they frequently Complained Still Asserting their Right to
Chiccacon Town as by a Complaint personally Exhibited to
the two Houses of Assembly in the Year 1719 by Panquass
and Anatocam Chiefs of the Nanticoke Indians Against a
Certain Roger Fowler praying that he might be Removed
from thence. It was Ordered thereupon that Roger Fowler
do remove from off the Indians Lands by the January fol-
lowing as he will Answer the Contrary at his Perill, and
again by the Journall of 1721, it appears that the Nanticoke
and Choptank Indians Complain of Incroachments made by