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Map 5. — Possible Potomac route of Captain Fleet's brother. 



have traveled this route by canoe at least as far down as the Great 

 Falls of the Potomac. Accepting 100 miles as the minimal distance 

 indicated and 200 miles as the maximum, the Massomack or Massa- 

 womeck Indians would seem to have resided on the headwaters of 

 the Potomac or on the Youghiogheny branch of the Alonongehela. 



3. MASSAWOMEC-BLACK MINQUA CONNECTION 



With the establishment of the Swedish colony on the Delaware a 

 new set of tribal names makes its appearance in the historical sources, 

 and this new nomenclature eventually becomes predominant. Those 

 names of particular concern to us are "Black Minqua" and "White 

 Minqua." 



In a letter dated June 11, 1644, in which he discusses future Indian 

 policy, Johan Printz, the governor of the Swedish colony, stated that: 



. . . when we have thus not only bought this river, but also won it with the 

 sword, then no one, whether he be Hollander or Englishman, could pretend in any 

 manner to this place either now or in coming times, but we should then have the beaver 

 trade with the Black and White Minquas alone, four times as good as we have 

 had it, now or at any past time .... [Johnson, 1930, p. 117.] 



