No, I haven't read it, but after two recommendations I am definitely
going to look it up. I have also seen it called "Chickacorn", in a
genealogy reference. I figured that might be a sort of Anglicized
version. Thanks for everyone's help.
Nancy
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I was never lost, but I was bewildered once for three days.
--Daniel Boone
On Feb 17, 2007, at 10:25 AM, Wilson, Donald L wrote:
> In what document or context did you find the word? I wonder if
> "Chesakowan" might be a varient reading of Cekakawwon (Chicacoan,
> Sekacawoni), a village found on John Smith's map of 1608. Have you
> read
> _Commoners, Tribute, and Chiefs: The Development of Algonquian Culture
> in the Potomac Valley_, by Stephen R. Potter (Charlottesville:
> University Press of Virginia, 1993)? It contains considerable detail
> about known communities in the Northern Neck region.
>
> Donald L. Wilson, Virginiana Librarian,
> Ruth E. Lloyd Information Center
> for Genealogy and Local History (RELIC),
> Prince William Public Library System,
> Bull Run Regional Library,
> 8051 Ashton Avenue,
> Manassas, VA 20109-2892.
> 703-792-4540.
> www.pwcgov.org/library/relic
>
>
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> Subject: Chesakowan District
>
> Does anyone here know anything about "Chesakowan District" in
> Lancaster
> County VA? It was, as far as I can tell, a sort of early Indian
> Reservation, inhabited by the Cottawoman Tribe, and is where my
> ancestor
> Anna "Little Flower" was born in 1662/4. The recent article in the
> Washington Post about old cemeteries eroding into the Chesapeake Bay
> mentioned a large Indian ossuary that vanished after storms last year.
> The print version of the article had a map of these sites, and the
> ossuary was in Lancaster County and in the area where Chesakowan
> District was. They're not sure where the principle village was, they
> speculate above where the Corotoman River empties into the
> Rappahannock,
> and it has probably eroded away long ago. The ossuary was above the
> mouth of the Rappahannock, on the Bay.
>
> thanks for any help,
>
> Nancy
>
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