NO.    4      INDIAN    SITES    ON    THE    RAPPAHANNOCK BUSHNELL  I5 
whence  they  may  have  removed,  some  having  crossed  the  Potomac 
and  continued  to  the  banks  of  the  Rappahannock.  The  tribal  name  is 
found  in  Maryland  on  early  land  grants  and  surveys : '"  "  Doegs 
Point  in  Mattawoman  Creek",  Prince  Georges  County,  1699;  and 
"  Doags  Neck  ",  Charles  County,  1657,  both  counties  bordering  on 
the  Potomac.  Also  several  references  to  tracts  in  Kent  County,  on 
the  Eastern  Shore,  dated  1704  and  1705  :  "  On  a  branch  called  Dogue 
Branch  and  on  the  north  side  of  Chester  River  ",  and  again  "  on  the 
north  side  of  a  Branch  called  Dogue  Branch  just  below  a  meadow 
called  Chester  Meadow." 
The  latter  references  are  interesting  as  they  apply  to  places  within 
the  region  still  occupied  at  that  time  by  the  Nanticoke. 
Chinquatuck ""  of  the  Herrman  map  may  be  the  Chingwawateick  of 
the  1666  treaty. 
The  occurrence  of  the  names  on  the  Rappahannock  should  be  ac- 
cepted as  proof  that  at  some  time  before  1670,  when  northern  Indians 
were  invading  Maryland  and  harassing  the  English  settlements  and 
native  villages  alike,  many  of  the  Indians  whose  lands  had  thus  been 
invaded  sought  refuge  across  the  Potomac  in  Virginia.  The  different 
groups  may  have  been  rather  small,  but  of  sufficient  size  to  cause  their 
old  tribal  names  to  become  identified  with  the  sites  they  occupied. 
SITES  OF  ANCIENT  SETTLEMENTS 
The  locations  of  many  native  settlements  are  shown  on  the  Smith 
map  of  Virginia,  often  referred  to  as  the  1624  map.  These  differed 
greatly  in  size  and  importance,  and  some  were  the  villages  of  chiefs 
whose  influence  may  have  extended  to  the  smaller  groups  outside  the 
principal  settlement.  The  names  of  such  villages  are  accompanied  on 
the  map  by  a  small  representation  of  a  habitation,  the  "  Kings 
bowses  "  as  they  were  described  in  the  legend.  Three  such  relatively 
important  towns  stood  on  the  banks  of  the  Rappahannock  within  ap- 
proximately 40  miles  of  the  falls.  The  first  of  these  settlements  to 
be  reached  in  ascending  the  river  was  Pissaseck,  on  the  left  or  north 
"  I  am  indebted  to  William  B.  Marye,  Baltimore,  Md.,  for  the  references 
quoted. 
^  According  to  information  furnished  by  Judge  Alvin  T.  Embrey.  Fredericks- 
burg, Va.,  this  small  stream,  which  enters  the  left  bank  of  the  Rappahannock  and 
which  bounds  Woodlawn,  the  old  Turner  plantation,  was  formerly  known  by 
the  name  Chingoteague,  and  was  so  recorded  on  several  deeds,  as  in  Deed 
Book  I,  p.  620,  and  Deed  Book  lA,  p.  147,  King  George  County,  Va.  The 
name  at  once  suggests  Chincoteague  Bay  on  the  Eastern  Shore,  being  part  in 
Virginia  and  part  in  Maryland. 
