While we know our northern friends may not feel it, in the South, Spring is
here. So we thought we'd share a few of our gardening sites appropriate
for this time of the year. Along with gardening, there's grilling, and getting
ready to diet so that you can fit back into that bathing suit this summer!
C- Maryland Indian Villages, Towns and
Settlements
A complete listing of all the Indian villages,
towns and settlements as listed in Handbook of Americans North of Mexico.
Choptank. Apparently a tribe consisting of 3 sub-tribes
the Ababco, Hutsawap, and Tequassimo formerly living on Choptank r. in Maryland.
In 1741 they were given a reserve near Secretary cr., on the s. side of Choptank
r., in Dorchester co., on the Eastern shore, where a few of mixed Indian and
Negro blood still remained in 1837. See Bozman, Maryland, i, 115, 1837.
Cuscarawaoc (place of making white beads. Tooker) . A
division of the Nanticoke; mentioned by Capt. John Smith as a tribe or people
living at the head of Nanticoke r., in Maryland and Delaware, and numbering
perhaps 800 in 1608. Their language was different from that of the Powhatan,
Conestoga, and Atquanachuke. Heckewelder believed them to be a division of the
Nanticoke, the correctness of which Bozman (Mary land, i, 112-121, 1837)
has clearly demonstrated. For a discussion of the name see Tooker, Algonquian
Series, ix, 65, 1901. (J. M.)
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Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico, Frederick Webb Hodge, 1906
