The Annamessex people were a historic Native American tribe from the Eastern Shore of Maryland . Their homelands were part of present-day Somerset County, Maryland .
4-815: Along with the Manokin, Nasswatox, and Aquintica, the Annamessex were a subtribe of the Pocomoke people , like the Manokin to their immediate north and the Morumsco at their immediate south. The Nanticoke and Choptank lived north of the Pocomoke, while the Accomac people lived further south in Virginia . English settlers from the Roanoke Colony made contact with the tribes in this region in
8-637: A reservation for those tribes. Pocomoke people The Pocomoke people were a historic Native American tribe whose territory encompassed the rivers Pocomoke , Great Annemessex, Little Annemessex, and Manokin, the bays of Monie and Chincoteague , and the sounds of Pocomoke and Tangier . Their numbers decreased during the 17th and 18th centuries due to the effects of diseases brought from Europe, massacres by Virginia colonists, and forced displacement from their territory by numerous land grants and patents to immigrants and transports. Beginning in about 1742, some Pocomoke families moved northward by way of
12-709: The Susquehanna River and settled in present-day Pennsylvania and Canada , while others cohabited with the Assateague , Nanticoke , and the Choptanks near the Indian River . Several related groups were considered subtribes of the Pocomoke: The Pocomoke Indian Nation , which is not recognized as a tribe, claims to descend from the Pocomoke people. It is an unrecognized tribe that incorporated as
16-646: The 1580s, while Spanish colonists also explored the area. The leaders of the Annamessex and neighboring tribes signed a peace treaty with the English in 1678. On May 6, 1686, leaders from the Annamessex and other Pocomoke people, headquartered at Askiminokonson met with the Land Office Commissioners of Maryland. They reported that British squatters from Accomac Shire , including by Charles Scarborough , had encroached upon their lands and British-owned cattle were destroying their crops. The land office designated
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