NO.    4       INDIAN    SITES    ON    THE    RAPPAHANNOCK BUSHNELL  9 
thereof;  Bee  it  therefore  enacted  by  the  govcrnow,  councell  and  burgesses  of 
this  present  grand  assembly,  and  the  aiUhority  thereof,  and  it  is  hereby  enacted, 
that  all  Indians  whatsoever  being  in  amity  and  fifriendship  with  us  from  hence- 
forth shall  have  free  and  full  liberty  to  come  in  amongst  us  and  bring  in  any 
comodities  whatsoever  to  the  severall  places  and  at  the  several!  tymes  here- 
after sett  downe,  and  mentioned,  and  to  trade  with,  sell  or  truck,  for  the  same 
with  the  English,  resorting  thither,  but  noe  where  else  for  any  comodityes  what- 
soever, and  that  such  marts  of  ITaires  continue  fiforty  dayes  and  noe  longer, 
(that  is  to  say)  .  .  .  the  place  for  the  marte  or  ffaire  in  Rappahanock  river  to 
be  appointed  and  set  downe  by  the  justices  of  the  peace  in  Lancaster  county, 
being  mett  and  satt  in  the  court,  the  begining  of  which  marte  or  ffaire  to  be 
yearely  the  twentyeth  day  of  Aprill  and  the  twentyeth  of  September  .  .  . 
A  similar  "  marte  or  ffaire  "  was  to  be  held  in  Stafford  County, 
beginning  on  April  30  and  September  30  each  year." 
A  description  of  a  gathering  at  a  "  marte  or  ffaire  ",  with  Indians 
and  colonists  coming  together  to  trade,  would  be  of  the  greatest 
interest,  but  none  is  known  to  have  been  preserved.  Nor  is  there  any 
known  record  of  when  or  where  such  a  gathering  took  place. 
Two  years  later  the  protection  of  the  outlying  settlements  again 
caused  anxiety.  The  first  act  of  the  Grand  Assembly  "  begunn  at 
James  Citty  the  25th  of  April,  1679"  was  "  for  the  defence  of  the 
country  against  the  incursions  of  the  Indian  enemy."  This  provided 
"  that  f ower  houses  for  stores  or  garrisons  be  erected  and  built  at 
the  heads  of  the  ffower  greate  rivers."  The  Rappahannock  was  one  of 
the  four.  Two  structures  were  to  be  erected  at  each  chosen  site,  of 
the  same  dimensions,  described  as  "  one  store  house  to  be  strongly 
built,  and  well  covered  to  be  sixty  foot  long,  and  twenty  two  foote 
broad,  and  one  small  house  of  tenn  foot  square  to  be  strongly  built 
for  ammunition."  Maj.  Lawrence  Smith  of  Gloucester  County  was 
in  command  at  the  falls  of  the  Rappahannock.  The  frontier  posts  were 
maintained  until  the  autumn  of  1682,  when  it  was  ordered  "  that  the 
said  severall  forts  and  garrisons  be  dismantled  .  .  .  "  "^  The  Indians 
were  no  longer  feared  as  formerly,  and  to  supply  the  garrisons  proved 
a  burden  to  the  colony. 
Thus,  just  three-quarters  of  a  century  after  Captain  Smith  had 
been  conducted  by  his  Indian  captors  to  their  settlements  on  the 
banks  of  the  Rappahannock,  the  native  population  of  the  entire  valley 
had  been  dispersed  and  the  sites  of  many  of  their  villages,  with 
the  surrounding  cornfields,  had  become  plantations  of  the  English 
colonists. 
"  Hening,  op.  cit.,  vol.  2,  p.  410. 
"  Hening,  op.  cit.,  vol.  2,  p.  498. 
