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have power to leauy and rayse by presse or otherwise fifty able men with Armes 

 and Provision and all things necessary for them to be sent to the Sasquehannough 

 Forte for the end aforesaid And the proporcon of the said Souldiers to be raysed 

 out of the severall Countyes as followeth. (vizt) out of the County of S*. Marys 

 Eleaven, out of Calvert County fifteene out of Charles County seaven, out of 

 Anne Arrundell eleaven out of Kent three, with one Interpreter a Captaine and 

 a Chirurgeon. And for the pay of the officers and Souldiers aforesaid to be 

 proporconed as followeth vntill the Souldiers retourne To the Comander in 

 cheife Six hundred pounds of tobacco in Caske p moneth To the Interpreter six 

 hundred p moneth to the Leiuetennant four hundred p moneth To the Serjeant 

 three hundred p moneth and to the Chirurgeon foure hundred p moneth and to 

 every private Souldier two hundred and fifty p moneth. And be it further enacted 

 by the authority aforesaid that for the defraying of the Charge of the said warre 

 and all charges incident to itt That the Governor and Councell are hereby im- 

 powred to leauy by waye of Assessment p pole according to the vsuall Custome 

 out of this Province And in the Intervall of Assemblyes to rayse what forces 

 they in their disrecon shall thinke necessary against the Cynacs or Nayssone 

 Indians or any other Indians that shall be found to have killed any of the In- 

 habitants of this Province or that have or shall disturbe the peace thereof. And 

 the Charges to be defrayed as aforsaid This Acte to continue and be in force 

 for two yeares or the next Generall Assembly which shall first happen 



The Lower howsel The Vpper howse") 



haue Assented^ haue Assented [ 



Will Bretton ClkJ John Gittings ClreJ 



(General Assembly of Maryland, 

 Upper House, 1883). 



The passage "Cynaco or Naijsonne Indians" in one instance, and 

 that of "Cynacs or Nayssone Indians or any other Indians" in another, 

 can be interpreted to mean either that the name "Cynaco" was a 

 synonym for the name "Naijssone" or "Nayssone," or that the Mary- 

 land officials and the Susquehannock were uncertain which of two 

 groups of Indians may have been involved in the incident at Patapsco 

 Kiver. However, the term "Cynaco" or "Cynacs" has numerous 

 cognates including "Cinnigos," "Cynikers," "Sannagers," "Senacaes," 

 "Senequas," "Seneques," "Senneks," "Sinacks," "Sinica," "Sin- 

 nagers," "Syneck," and "Synicks" (Hodge, 1910, pt. 2, pp. SOT- 

 SOS), aU of which are variants of a general Dutch and English term 

 for Iroquoian-speaking peoples (and thereby similar to the Swedish 

 term "Minqua"). According to Hewitt, the term "Seneca" became 

 "the tribal name of the Seneca by a process of elimination which 

 excluded from the group and from the connotation of the general 

 name the nearer tribes as each with its own proper native name be- 

 came known to the Europeans" (Hodge, 1910, pt. 2, p. 504). 



It easily can be demonstrated, however, that the Nahyssan were a 

 Siouan-speaking group, and that they are therefore separate and 



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