at a single settlement, referred to Indian Town (or Indiantown) by the colonists and Askiminokonson by the Indians. By 1671, it was the largest Indian settlement in Maryland, and was made part of a reservation in 1686. Askiminokonson was located on the north side of the Pocomoke River near present-day Snow Hill, Maryland. In 1742, unusual movements by the Indians created concern among the colonists, and investigation revealed that several chiefs had been involved in a plot for a general uprising fomented by a Shawnee chief, Messowan. The Maryland colonial government dissolved the Assateague's "empire", made the title of Emperor merely honorary, and placed each town directly under provincial authority. Much agitation for the permission to emigrate followed, and by the end of the decade a large part of the Assateagues had moved to the Susquehanna region and become tributaries to the Iroquois. This group moved slowly northward, and their descendants are now in Ontario, Canada. Of those who stayed in Maryland, one group lived on the Choptank reserve until 1798. Another remnant of the tribe, retaining little of its native culture, survived near the Indian River in Delaware. Notes References Assateague People of Delmarva website Ocean City, Maryland, Lifesaving Museum website Indigenous peoples of the Northeastern Woodlands Eastern Algonquian peoples Extinct Native American tribes Nanticoke tribe Native American history of Delaware Native American history of Maryland Native American history of Pennsylvania Native American history of Virginia Native American tribes in Delaware Native American tribes in Maryland Native American tribes in Virginia Algonquian ethnonyms