That would be the Chicacoan (Chickacoan, Sekakacoan) District that  
encompassed the area between the Rappahannock and Potomac Rivers in  
the early 17th century. Lancaster was formed from Northumberland and  
York Counties.

Steve Potter's book "Commoners, Tribute and Chiefs, The Development  
of Algonquian Culturel in the Potomac Valley. University Press of VA,  
1993 has a good deal about the area and his Ph.D. dissertation was  
about the Chicacoan District.

Lyle Browning, RPA

On Feb 16, 2007, at 2:46 PM, Sunshine49 wrote:

> 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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