NO. 7 INDIAN OCCUPANCY IN VIRGINIA BUSHNELL 5 



Rapidan, immediately up the stream from Germanna bridge, the site 

 of the settlement of Germanna. The Indians may have been some 

 who had formerly lived at Fort Christanna. The fort was aban- 

 doned by the Colony in 1718, but the " Sapponey Indian Town " 

 nearby was recognized as late as 1728 as belonging to the Saponi 

 and allied tribes, and white settlers were not permitted to acquire 



Fig. I. — Section of "A Map of the State of Virginia, compiled for Rawle's 

 Hot-pressed Edition of Jefferson's Notes." Philadelphia, June 1801. Showing 

 the "Indian Grave," on the right bank of the Rivanna north of Charlottesville. 



the land. It is not known when the Indians were finally dispersed, 

 but it is believed that not all left at the same time; they probably 

 drifted away in sinall groups to seek new homes elsewhere. Not 

 long after this a party of Indians visited the burial mound, " the In- 

 dian Grave," on the low ground of the Rivanna and, as related by 

 Jefferson, " staid about it some time, with expressions which were 

 construed to be those of sorrow." The mound, long since destroyed. 



