The blog about the Gingaskins sounds like the whites of Northampton were scheming to detribalize the Indians. 

When the reservation was formed, it is likely that many members of the tribe were already related to each other. Therefore, it is not surprising to find that the remaining Indians in 1813 had names like Drighouse (Driggers), a descendant of Emanuel Driggers/ Rodriges, one of the first African Americans free in Virginia (1645) and Carter (also free in the 1600s)--see Douglas Deal's "Race and Class." The Collins, Beavans/ Bibbens, and Toyer families were descendants of white women who had children by slaves. The Press family descended from "An Indian born in Accomac of a free Negro" in 1706. Litttleton Jeffrey married Nancy Collins (a "free Negro") in Northampton County in 1810. (http://www.freeafricanamericans.com)

In her article in the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography "The Termination and Dispersal of the Nottoway Indians of Virginia" (Vol. 95, No. 2 (1987): 193-214) Professor Rountree argues that it was inevitable that Indians on such reservations would eventually become "Free Negroes." However, she changed her opinion when she became "Anthropologist to the Pamunkey Indians." She stated that the descendants of the Gingaskin would not talk to her because they considered themselves to be African Americans.
Paul

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