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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