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WILLIAM MONK, INTERPRETER
Vol. 25, p 392
At a Council held at the Council Chamber at Annapolis
Octr 20th Saturday 1722
The Choptank Indians being sent for and examined upon
what Account they came over at this time to Annapolis de
clare by William Monk their Interpreter that they Came to
Complain of Isaac Nichols who had bought Land of them
for twenty pounds Current Money and twenty Gallons of
Rum but who had wrong’d them of part of the Money; they
came likewise to Complain of Mr Howell who would have his
Land without paying for it, and Captain Trip, John Anderson,
Philemon Lecount Iames Foulks William Foulks and John
Forster who refused to pay rent to the Indians, though they
livd or had Quarters on their Land, and finally of Doctor Mur
ray who had bought Land of William Monk Above six years
since and had not paid for it the same of Govert Lockerman
Upon hearing these several Complaints and taking them
into Consideration the honble Board acquaint the Indians by
their Interpreter that all those who have bought Lands on the
other side of Choptank River shall be Compelled to pay the
Indians but that they must not sell Land on this side of the
River and that their other Grievances should be Redressed
but that in Consideration thereof and of their having their
p. 50 Lands Secured to them by the Lord proprietor they are to pay
to his Lordship six Beaver Skins yearly as an Acknowledg
ment to the Conditions the Indians Consent”
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PETER MONK, INDIAN RIVER INDIAN
ARCHIVES OF MARYLAND
VOL. 31; p. 355
“May it Please your Excellency
At the Request of the Nanticoke Indians I take the Liberty
to acquaint your Honour that I have been Acquainted with
the aforesaid Indians Forty two years (my Place of Resi-
dence being a part of their Town) and very well know
George Pocatehouse or Pocatous as some call him to be a
Decendant from the family of old Panquash one of those
Indians to whom his Lordship gave the grant for the Nanti-
coke Town Lands and Likewise that William Cohonk is a
Descendent from the Aforesaid Nanticoke Indians, Cohonks
Mother lived with me from a Girl and I was Acquainted with
her until her Death and that she was the Daughter of old
Panquash as aforesaid and farther that Peter Monk is a
Descendent from the Indian River Indians in Worcester
County, and no ways allied to the Nanticoke Indians as I
have been Informed by the old Nanticoke Indians who I have
Often heard Speak of Monks Family. Thomas Hackett I
have Often heard speak of the same Indians and to the same
Purpose of what I have Related, I am about Seventy Four
years of age and am unable to wait on your Honour but will
at any Time if Required make Oath to the Above Contents
and am.
Your Excellencys most Obedt Hble Servt
her
Mary M Cratcher
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April 3d 1759
p. S. Solomon Wright who is Son to old Edward Wright
who was the Indian Interpreter in the first Setling here
knows the same as is abovesaid.
Which being Read and considered of and upon hearing
what the Indians Present had to say on behalf of Peter
Prince and Pocatehouse This Board are of Opinion that
Pocatehouse has the best Right to be made Chief Man of the
said Indians, with which Opinion his Excellency Agrees and
Acquaints the Indians thereof and they seemed Well Pleased.”
There was controversy as on page 298 of same Vol.:
“To his Excellency Horatio Sharpe Esqr Governor of Mary-
land.
The Petition of the Nanticoke Indians of Dorchester
County.
Humbly sheweth
That your Petitioners and their Ancestors ’till of late Years
have constantly been governed by Emperors, but as we have
no Person at present among our Tribes invested with such
Powers of Government we beg that your Excellency would
be pleased to appoint Peter Monk to be Emperor of the said
Nanticoke Indians and your Petitioners as in Duty bound
shall pray.
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June 3d 1758
May it please your Excellency
The Death of Peter Prince has given Occasion to the
Nanticoke Indians of making their Application to your Ex-
cellency in Favour of Peter Monk as may appear to your
Excellency by the inclosed Petition, he passes for a Man of a
fair Character, and as the Indians inform me is lineally
descended from Annotoughcan one of the Grantees men-
tioned in the Act of 1704: in the Body of Laws Fo: 39.
I am with great Regard your Excellency’s
most dutiful and most obedient Servant
Henry Hooper.
On reading the foregoing Letter and Petition, it is the Ad-
vice of this Board, and his Excellency is pleased to order
accordingly that Peter Monk be appointed Emperor of the
Nanticoke Indians.”
Note the William Munk and the AOFP MUNK household in the 1790 post…..
I have to get out my maps and ponder this some more, but I think the back of western Maryland at this time was still pretty wild and along an important, much used Warriors Path. Also, the original folks settled in this area were many of them involved in the Indian trade…..
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