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any but him the said Informant, He thereupon accordingly
went to Coll Chandlers house where he mett with the King
of Mattawoman and one of his Indians called Jackanapes who
had lately been taken prisoner by the Sinniquos and escaped
from them; The said Jackanapes did relate in the presence
of the said Boareman, Coll Chandler and John Lambert the
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Interpreter that the Zachaiah Indians had sent a present with
an axe to the Sinniquos which was first sent to the Eastern
Shore Indians (as the Informant Remembers and beleives the
Emperour of Nantecoke) who was to convey the same to the
Mattwass and they to the Sinniquos for to destroy the Eng-
lish and those in friendshipp with them but the Mattwass
would not accept thereof nor joine with them, The Informant
asked him the said Jackanapes how he came to know this, to
which he replied that dureing the time he was a prisoner
among the Sinniquos there came an Annacostin Indian to him
and told him he need not feare his life, but the Mattawoman
prisoners notwithstanding seemeing very disconsolate as
being alwaies in feare, the Annacostin tooke him the said
Jackanapes by the hand and carried him to a place in the
woods where the greate men of the Sinniquos were, who
asked him why he was afraid of being killed when they had
soe often declared they would give them their lives to wch he
the said Jackanapes answered them that the Pascattoway
prisoners that had escaped from them did Report that the
Sinniquos were resolved to burn man woman and child which
they tooke of the Mattawomans, Whereupon the Sinniquos
(One of the greate men of them standing up and seemeing to
express himself with admiration) said they should see to the
contrary of that calling to some of the Indians that stood by
to bring a couple of basketts with belts of Peake and a broad
axe and as the Informant best remembers and verily beleives
a narrow axe wch went from the Eastern shore) wch they said
was sent to them from the Pascattoways to destroy the Eng-
lish and their friend Indians The said Jackanapes also told
this Informant that two nations (viz:) Nootassens and Anoon-
dangas accepted of the present, and sent the axe with a pres-
ent to the Aquiacoes who tooke the axe and kept it some
small time and afterwards returne it back again saying the
English would doe them noe hurt, and therefore they would
not accept of it.
Ordered that the King of Mattawoman and the said Jack-
anapes together with the King of Choptico and Wingatt one
of his greate men appeare before his Lspp and Councill on
thursday the 25th instant and accordingly issued the following
precept to the Sheriff of St Maries County viz.
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