Ownership
of Pampatike
“In land Book 7, page 457, Land Office, is a deed dated
the 20th of April 1685, from Francis Lord Howard, Governor, to Capt. Francis Page, conveying to him as a
dividend, for importing persons from England to the colony, a tract of land called ‘Pampertike’, containing
one thousand acres of land, lying in New Kent County, on the north side of the Pamunkey River in Pamunkey Neck,
beginning at the mouth of Goodwin’s Creek, or swamp, a little below Goodwin’s Island, and running by
the said creek about one and a half miles northerly still binding on the said creek, to a corner ash, etc. to the
head of a branch of “Pampertike” Creek, and so down the branch to the creek, and down the creek to the river, the
said creek dividing the land and the land of William Woodward, and so by the river to the mouth of (Goodwin’s
Creek, a little below Goodwin’s island, being the place where it began. The said land being due as follows,
was formerly purchased by one 6___ Booth, of the Queen of the Pamunkeys, after whose death the said land
was granted to his son Robert Booth by an order of Assembly bearing date the 25th of April, 1679, and by the
said Robert Booth, assigned to Mark Wakeman, and by the said Wakeman assigned to Capt. Francis Page.”
Thomas N. Carter 1915
Transcribed by William Tyler
Pampatike
Pampatike was acquired from the Queen of
the Pamunkeys one generation of
the Booth family before 1679. With each generation being 15 years or less, that points to sometime between 1665 to
1670.
I believe the Manskin Indians were entirely
removed from the Island between 1662
and 1670. They were attacked in 1645 were either killed or scatted to the other tribes. They also could have moved
closer to Fort Royall to stay
at Mankind Farm across from Totopotomoy creek. With all the Males gone they may had had to move to a gypsy
lifestyle.
This left the Queen of the Pamunkeys to
sell the Manskin lands sometime between 1645
and 1670.
Island
Field
