The Helen Rountree-Thomas Davidson study, EASTERN SHORE INDIANS OF MARYLAND AND VIRGINIA (Univ. press of VA, 1997) provides a useful window on some aspects of Eastern Shore Natives, genealogical matters, and the various reservations. They look carefully at the document-identification evolution and the intermarriages. West, for my family, is one of the Gingaskin names. James West went on record in 1811 to be acknowledged as "of the Indian extraction" in Eastville, VA. His ancestor may have been the "Indian boy" whom Captain John West brought into Accomac County court in 1667 and named Ned, for indenture until he turned 24. Let's note that in November 1640 the Accomack white authorities initiated a reservation allotment for the Gingaskins that was supposed to be 1500 acres but was halved by the time of the final disposition on that land the following year. So, there was acknowledgment of an Indian presence through the rest of the colonial period until the usual shutting down attempts either held sway, as they did at Gingaskin in the second decade of the 1800s, Nottoway in the Tidewater by mid-century; but Pamunkey survived as a Rez. Yet, Gingaskin families prevailed in Eastville; across the street from the courthouse is a historical marker about the Gingaskins, stating their presence in the town in 1860. I realize how and what we might make of such markers, but that's simply what it says. The Assateague Peoples website is also worth a look. Best wishes, Ron Welburn