Subject: Re: Wesorts; Nanticokes;WICOMOCO (This is my final ANSWER)!!!!! Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >Thomas Brown seems to side with the Heinegg camp. Tom's recent communication >on this list, "They (the Piscataway) do not have a continuous history of >Indian bloodlines. The contemporary group traces back to people who >identified as white, black, or mulatto. There is not a single data point >identifying any of their colonial ancestors as Indian," says it all. When >data points are in, the Piscataway are out. > >The same can be said for the Nanticoke and Lenni Lenape of Delaware. Actually, the situation is a bit different for the Piscataways and the Nanticokes. The Nanticokes can trace at least some slight degree of Indian ancestry back to the colonial era. The Piscataways cannot. Also, the Nanticokes were longer in leaving the region, and did not move out all at the same time. There is circumstantial evidence that some Nanticokes remained and assimilated into what eventually emerged as multiracial isolates. The Piscataways, meanwhile, left as a body and disappear from MD colonial records after 1705. The circumstantial evidence of their survival in MD is much weaker than for the Nanticokes. >Of course most professional historians will pooh-pooh this just as Brown put >down Frank Speck, who worked with Weslager for awhile. Please don't misrepresent what I said. I posted a passage from Frank Porter's dissertation that showed Speck himself acknowledging that he had made an error of interpretation. That hardly translates as my "putting him down".