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TABLE 6 — Identifiable ceramics on Patuxent sites.
Torp’s Lament (Units)
%
Cumberland
%
Nottingham South
%
Accokeek
0
0.0%
38
1.3%
73
1.9%
Popes Creek
0
0.0%
0
0.0%
29
0.8%
Popes Creek or Accokeek
0
0.0%
0
0.0%
0
0.0%
Marcey Creek
0
0.0%
0
0.0%
0
0.0%
Early Woodland
0
0.0%
38
1.3%
102
2.7%
Mockley
13
8.6%
119
4.2%
422
11.1%
Middle Woodland
13
8.6%
119
4.2%
422
11.1%
Townsend
137
90.1%
2662
94.4%
2243
58.8%
Potomac Creek
1
0.7%
0
0.0%
220
5.8%
Potomac Creek or Moyaone
1
0.7%
0
0.0%
0
0.0%
Moyaone
0
0.0%
0
0.0%
39
1.0%
Yeocomico
0
0.0%
0
0.0%
0
0.0%
Sullivan Cove
0
0.0%
0
0.0%
158
4.1%
Camden/ Colonoware
0
0.0%
0
0.0%
2
0.1%
Late Woodland
139
91.4%
2662
94.4%
2662
69.8%
of Wicomico to be called “Calverton” or “Chop- tico Manor.” This manor was created for “certain Indians of several natons to wit the Mattapanians, the Wicomicons, the Patuxants, the Lamascon- sons, the Kighanixons, and the Chopticons who desire to put themselves under our Protection and to have Grant from us of a certain Tract of Land in the head of Wicocomico River called Choptico.” The leaders of the six aforementioned nations would be allotted 200 acres each and in- dividual Indians no more than 50 acres each. The manor and its native inhabitants, regardless of whether they belonged to any of the other groups mentioned, were referred to as the Choptico for the remainder of the century.
Despite the establishment of the reserva- tion in 1651, the colonial Land Office continued to grant lands to the English in the immediate area. In April of 1662, three Indians, Papimmun, Pacckadehunt, and Antvick asked Governor Charles Calvert whether they could live at Chop- tico. Being that they had every right to settle there, the Governor was surprised by the question. They responded by telling Calvert that the Englishmen Doctor Luke Barber and “the sons of Thom- as Hatton...would not have them there.”45 The bounds of the reservation were in disarray, with the original grant at Choptico never having been formally surveyed. A survey of the manor was
finally completed in 1671, twenty years after the fact.46
In 1666, Articles of Peace and Amity were signed by twelve native groups including the Choptico. While the Choptico are named in the treaty, no one signed for them, which has been interpreted as indicating that the Choptico were denoting their tributary status to the Piscataway.47 The Choptico reaffirmed the treaty in 1676,48 following the death of their king and in 1692,49 following the establishment of Maryland as a royal colony after the Protestant Revolution of 1689.
The association between the Choptico and Piscataway was a tenuous one. While the 1666 treaty suggests that the Choptico were tribu- tary to the Piscataway, in the years after it was signed, the Choptico appear more independent. In 1679 the Piscataway asked the Choptico to help return an Anacostan prisoner to the Seneca. The Choptico replied that they could not without permission from Lord Baltimore. The Piscataway in turn complained directly to Baltimore about the Choptico’s refusal, to which he replied that the Choptico, Mattawoman, and Nanjemoy must assist the Piscataway.50
The Choptico also sought to distance themselves publicly (to the English) from the Piscataway on a number of other occasions, the most infamous of which took place in 1681. In
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