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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I was never lost, but I was bewildered once for three days.

--Daniel Boone

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