Introduction.             xlv

                        INDIAN AFFAIRS

       There are only a few references to Indians or to Indian warfare in this
     record. One of these appears to be an instance of disgraceful treatment of a
     friendly Indian. A Nangemy Indian, Misapacka, complained of maltreatment
     by a planter at the September, 1666, Charles County Court, and “John Tom-
     kinson in the absence of Mr Thomas Mathews [the then sheriff], was sworne to
     make a trew interpretation of Misapacka a nangemy Indians Complaint.”
     Misapacka declared that he had bought corn at Pamunkey and had hired an
     Indian as guide, and had given him ten arms length of Roanoke to bring corn
     and beans in a canoe to his house in Nangemy. The Indian was hailed when he
     was passing Mr. Pinnar's house “and thereupon According to the Articles hee
     Came ashoare and they thearupon immediately seased him and bound him and
     Carried him unto Mr Waed (Wade) hows but when hee Returned thear was
     missing about one hogset of Come a bushell of Beanes one boule and too mats.”
     Richard Pinnar came to the next court to answer the complaint, but the court
     clerk made no entry as to the outcome (p. 34). Again at the November, 1674,
     court, Cornelius Cormacke was ordered to appear at the next court to answer
     the complaint of the Indians, but our record ends with this session so we do not
     know the nature of the complaint or the action upon it, if any (p. 615).
       The court at the January, 1666/7, session, ordered that Ralph Wormelie
     (Wormeley) and Garret Synnet (Sennet) who had “receaved hurt, and damage
     in the March to Pascataway in this present yeare 1666 by Casuall Shott”,
     draw a bill of their charges for injuries to be sent to the Provincial Court to be
     entered on the “publique levie” (Provincial levy) (p. 55; Arch. Md. LVII,
     xlv). Zachary Wade, one of the justices, recorded at the March, 1665/6, court,
     that he had deposited with George Thompson, clerk of the court, 990 pounds
     “of the Countrys tobacco” for powder and shot, doubtless in connection with
     the march to Piscataway (p. 11). It was possibly to this same Indian dis-
     turbance that Mary Wheeler referred, when as a witness at the March,
     1669/70, court, she dated a past occurrence as having taken place in “the
     yeare my husband went the march” (p. 254). This was unquestionably the
     march to Piscataway against the Indians. In various land conveyances we find
     mentioned as landmarks “Indian fields” or “old Indian fields”, and in one in-
     stance an “old Indian fort.” Indian fields are noted as being located on Matta-
     woman or St. Thomas' Creek (pp. 155, 156, 225), and as on Chingamuxon
     Creek in Piscataway River (p. 599). “Old Indian fields” are noted on Wi-
     comico River and Portobacco Creek (pp. 268, 523, 552)). The location of
     Benjamin Rozer's Indian Fields plantation has not been identified (p. 585).
     The “olde Indian forte” (p. 533), known as the Anacostin Fort, is described
     as located on St. Isidore's Creek, later called Anacostia River where the
     village of Twining in the District of Columbia now stands (Md. Hist. Mag.
     1938, pp. 134-148). “Paths”, which may be Indian trails, are discussed in
     another section (p. xlviii).
       In the county levy for 1666, there is a curious mention of “Indian heads",

     the meaning of which is ambiguous. The entry in question shows 277 pounds
     of tobacco due “To Nich. Emerson accot of Charges for Indian heads & the