_______________________________ Document 37 ERECTION OF FORT CHRISTANNA [Executive Journals, III, 375, 376] _______________________________ At a Council held at the Capitol the 15th day of October 1714 Present The Honorable Alexander Spotswood her Majesties Lieutenant Governor etc. James Blair Philip Ludwell John Smith John Lewis William Cocke and Robert Porteus Esquires * * * * * * * The Governor acquainted the Council that pursuant to the Trust reposed in him by the General Asembly he had for the better securing the Frontiers erected a Fort at Christanna on the South side of Maherine River, and laid out a Tract of land on that side for the habitation of the Saponie, Occoneechee, Stukanox and Tottero Indians, and on the opposite Side of the River another Tract for the Nottoways and Maherines who had represented to him the impossibility of their being able to Subsist on the Land intended for them in the fork of James River, by reason of its barrenness, of which he himself had been an eye witness during his late Progress: That for the Security of the Fort of Christanna (40) he had appointed a Captain and twelve men to reside there, who with a proportionable number of the Indians are to performe the Ranging Service between Roanoak River and Appomattox and that part of the Countrey which has been hitherto most exposed to the incursions of the Tuscaruro India! ns intirely Secured. And that for the ease of the Country, he had disbanded the Rangers of Prince George's County and reduced the number of those other Rangers who are continued in pay in other parts of the Frontiers to the number of Six in each Troop.

Thanks so much, Crystal for this citation from the Executive Journals. Bpn