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	Piscataway Indians
		Their journey to the Piscataway village, estimated at "about seventy miles" in the adventurers' chronicle, was commissioned by Virginia Gov. Sir Francis Nicholson to assess the lifestyle, strength and motives of the Piscataway Indians.
		The Piscataway, who previously lived in Maryland along the shores of the lower Potomac River and Chesapeake Bay, had moved to the wilderness of the present Middleburg-Landmark area because they thought the Maryland government was going to destroy their people.
		The culture of the Conoy or Piscataway Indians was said to resemble that of the Powhatan Indians of Virginia.
	www.loudounhistory.org /history/indians-piscataway.htm (1973 words)

	Welcome to Piscataway, NJ — Piscataway
		Welcome to Piscataway, NJ Piscataway was founded in 1666, and officially incorporated in 1798.
		The community, the fifth oldest municipality in New Jersey, has grown from Indian territory, through a colonial period and is one of the links in the earliest settlement of the Atlantic seacoast that ultimately led to the formation of the United States.
		Piscataway, located in Middlesex County, comprises 19.1 square miles, is 35 miles from New York City, and within 250 miles of one-quarter of the nation's total population.
	www.piscatawaynj.org (374 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Piscataway Indians
		The original relation of these towns to one another is not very clear, but under the Maryland Government their chiefs or "kings" all recognized the chief of Piscataway as their "emperor", and held the succession subject to the ratification of the colonial "assembly".
		About this time the renewed inroads of the Susquehanna compelled the removal of the mission from Piscataway to Potopaco, where the woman chief and over 130 others were Christians.
		In habit and ceremony the Piscataway probably closely resembled the kindred Powhatan Indians of Virginia as described by Smith and Strachey, but except for Father White's valuable, though brief, "Relatio" we have almost no record on the subject.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/12114a.htm (1086 words)

	Atlantic Kayak's Piscataway Creek Kayak Center, Fort Washington, Maryland
		Piscataway Creek is a tributary of the Potomac River, situated across the river from Mount Vernon in Mount Vernon's protected viewshed.
		The center is approximately 20 minutes from Alexandria, and 12 minutes from the beltway.
		Our phone number at the Piscataway Creek Kayak Center is 301 292 6455, and the exact street address is below.
	www.atlantickayak.com /kayak_center.htm (288 words)

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