McWILLIAMS, J., delivered the opinion of the Court.
Captain John Smith sailed up the Wicomico River in 1608. When he came to what is now Salisbury he found a small community of Nanticoke Indians. They drifted away to the north in the face of later incursions of the white settlers. A century or so later their displacement seems to have been accomplished. In the summer of 1732 the Assembly passed an act "for the erecting a Town at the Head of Wiccomoco River ... in...
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