ARTICLES OF PEACE BETWEEN CHARLES II AND SEVERAL INDIAN KINGS AND QUEENS CONCLUDED THE 29TH DAY OF MAY, 1677.   SYNOPSIS. The treaty consists of 21 articles, in which the Indians acknowledge subjection to the British Crown and the British guarantee them protection. They provide that no English settlement shall be made nearer than three miles of any Indian town and that the Indians shall be “secured and defended in their persons, goods and properties against all hurts and injuries of the English.” They are also to be protected in their “Oystering Fishing and gathering of Tuchahoe Curtenemons Wild Oats Rushes buckoone or any thing else.”

The treaty was signed by the Queen of Pamunkey, Queen of Waonoke, King of the Nancymond Indians, King of the Nottoways and Captain John West, Son of the Queen of Pamunkey, and their marks or totems are reproduced in facsimile, on p. 16.
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A Bibliography of the English Colonial Treaties with the American Indians … By Henry Farr De Puy, 1917
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(Historically, the Pamunkey nation inhabited the coastal tidewater of Virginia on the north side of the James River near Chesapeake Bay. The Pamunkey is one of only two tribes that still retain reservation lands assigned by the 1646 and 1677 treaties with the English colonial government.)