Articles of Peace and Amity

At one of the Clock the House met again Present as before

Then the Governour desired Edwd Lloyd Esqr to go to the Lower House & ask them whither they will be pleased to come & hear the Articles of Peace with the Indians Read before they are signed

The Lower House being come & the Articles of Peace read were signed by the Governour & Speaker both Houses being Present

Here followeth the Articles of peace made with the Indians this assembly

Articles of peace & amity concluded agreed vpon between the Rt honoble Caecilius Lord & Propr of the Province of Maryland & Avalon Lord Barron, of Baltemore  & the Indians of Pascattoway Anacostanck, Doags, Mikikiwomans, Manasquesend, Mattawomans, Chingwawateick,  Hangemaick, Portobackes, Sacayo, Panyayo, & Choptico the 20th day of April 1666

Imprimis The fore named Indians doe rattifye & confirme, accknowledge & declare the sole power of Constituting & appoynting the Emperor of Pascattoway to be & remayne in the Rt honoble Caecilius Lord & Propr of this Province & his heires lords & Proprietarys of this Province and doe desire the Governor with what convenient speed he can to appoynte an Emperor in the place of Wahacosso the second late deceased.

2 If an Indian kill an Englishman he shall dye for itt

3 fforasmuch as the English cannot easily distinguish one Indian from another that noe Indian shall come into any English plantacōn painted & that all the Indians shall be bound to call a lowde before they come within three hundred pacies of any English mans cleare ground & lay downe their armes whether gun Bowe or arrowes or other weapon for any English man that shall appeare vpon his call to take vp, & in case noe one appeare that he shall there leave his sd Armes if he come neerer & that afterward he shall by calling a lowde endeavor to give notice to the English of his neerer approach And if any English man shall kill any Indian that shall come vnpaynted & give such notice & deliver vp his Armes as aforesaid he shall dye for itt as well as an Indian that kills an English man & in case the English & Indians meete accidentally in the woods every Indian shall be bound immediately to throwe downe his Armes vpon call, and in case any Indian soe meeting an English man shall refuse to throwe downe his armes vpon Call he shall be deemed as an Enemy

4 The priviledge of hunting Crabbing fishing & fowleing shall be preserved to the Indians inviolably

5 That in case of danger the Governor shall appoynte a place to which the Indians of the aforesaid nacōns shall bring their wives & children to be secured from danger of any forreign Indians & that in case the men of the aforesd nacōns chance to be killed that the women & children shall remayne free & not be servants to the English

6 That Nicholas Emanson doe make the Indians of Hangemaick  sattisfaccōn for the damage by him done to their Corne in case George Thompson & John Browne testefy that the sd Emanson did willfully throwe downe the fence about their Cornefeild.

7 That the Indians of Hangemaick shall remayne vpon the place where they now live & tht Mecatahammon sonne to their last king be King over tht people imediately under the protection of the Lord Propr of this Province & subject to noe Indian whatsoever.

8 That John Roberts & Thomas Morris doe pay the Indians of Chingwawateick one hundred & twenty armes length of Roaneoke for the Indian that was slayne by them at the head of Portoback Creeke in August last.

9 That every Indian that killeth or stealeth A hogge calfe or other beaste, or other goods shall vndergoe the same punishmt that an Englishman doth for the same offence

10 That the severall nacōns aforesd shall continue vpon the places where they now live & that the honoble the Governor be desired to layout their severall bounds as to him in justice shall seeme most for the publick good betweene this & the last of June next ensueing within which bounds it shall not be lawfull for the sd nacōns to entertayne any forreign Indians whatsoever to Hue with them without leaue from the Lord Propr or his cheife Governor here for the tyme being & that the sd Indians shall not be forced or removed from the sd places soe to be lymited and appoynted to them by the Governor as aforesd vnles the nacōn or nacons or any perticuler person of those nacons hereafter to be removed shall signify their willingnes to be removed by the consent of their Matchcomics to such Comrs as the sd Lord Proprietor or his cheife Governor here for the tyme being by Comon vnder the greate seale of this Province to be authorized to take the same & lycence therevpon from his sd lop̄. or his Governor here to remove had and obtayned.

11 That the aforesd nacōns shall from & after the first of December next ensueing fence in their Cornefields from hoggs & Cattle of the English And if any English man willfully throwe downe any of their fences they shall make the Indians full sattisfaccōn for their damāge.

12 In case any servants or Slaves run away from their Masters & come to any of the Indian Townes aforcsd that the sd Indians shall apprehend them & bring them to the next English  plantacōn to be Conveyed to their master, and if any Indian convey or assist any such fugitives out of the Province that he shall make the respective Master or Mistres of such servant or servants such sattisfaccōn as an English man ought to doe in the like case.

13 That all greate men here prsent doe imediately signe theis articles & that the greate men of those Townes that were here & are returned or otherwise did not come but by their Proxies shall come to the Governor when he comes to Pascattoway to make the Emperor & signe the peace here Concluded or else to be deemed & declared enemies as well to the English as to the Indians that doe joyne with the Lord Proprietor in this peace

14 That the sd nacōns shall not make any new peace with our Enemies & shall not make any new warre without Consent of the Rt honoble the Lord Propr or his cheife Governor here. That from this day forward there be an Inviolable peace and amity betweene the Rt honoble the Lord Propr of this Province and the Indians afore named vpon the articles before in this treaty agreed vpon to the worlds End to endure.

Then was read the Act. for Confirmation of the Articles of Peace with the Indians both Houses being Present Voted to pass