The Pocomoke Indian People are an Algonquian-speaking tribe.
They were the first watermen, hunters, farmers, and trappers on the
Chesapeake Bay waters and wetlands. They harvested food from the
Chesapeake Bay and its many tributaries.

In the Maryland Archives there is Chief Jeremey Peake as one of the chiefs
that signed the 1742 treaty with the state of Maryland. If you research Jeremey you will
find that the Indians left in the middle of the night so that they would
not be killed and fled to Rhode Isand and Pennsylvania. The history teaches us
that these Indian's married blacks and whites. See The Winnesoccum Disaster. Our George would
have been 20 years of age at that time living in Maryland and went to PA where
his sons say they were born. Peak in Maryland back in those days meant Wampum.
Because of the way Indian people were treated, most "Indians" called themselves
"white" and hid their true roots so that their children could go to "white" schools.
Our George Peake must have choose to be colored or mixed blood because of the
stories told about him in Cuyahoga County Ohio.

George Peake Sr. was born in 1722 Maryland
He died in 1827 at the age of 105 in Rockport, Cuyahoga Co. Ohio
George left Maryland and went to Mercer Co. PA by the 1810 census
I can not find any Peake's in the 1790 or 1800 census

The first permanent African descendant settlers were George Peake and his family who migrated from
Pennsylvania, to the western shores of the Cuyahoga River, in 1809. Peake purchased 101 acres of
land in Rockport in 1811 and settled with his family, into a life of farming. George Peake was a
veteran of the French and Indian War of 1759, serving under General James Wolfe in the Battle of
Abraham Plains at Quebec. Following Peake, the African American population was a slow growth
in Cleveland.

The Western Reserve is considered that portion of land in northeast Ohio extending from the
Pennsylvania border in the east 120 miles westward and 80 miles southward. Its northern border is
Lake Erie and the southern border is the parallel of the 41st degree North Latitude. The Western
Reserve comprises 12 counties (Ashtabula, Lake, Medina, Geauga, Trumbull, Lorain, Erie,
Huron, Portage, parts of Summit, and Mahoning) including Cuyahoga County and the city of
Cleveland. The state of Connecticut obtained the "Western Reserve" of the Northwest Territory and
sold it to a group of investors called the Connecticut Land Company in 1795. In 1796, The
Connecticut Land Company sent a survey expedition to the Reserve, headed by Moses Cleaveland,
an American Revolutionary War veteran.

George Peake Sr. married a mulatto
Their children
1. George Jr. married Hannah
2. Joseph married Eleanor
3. James married Nancy Agness
4. Henry married Ruth

1820 and 1830 census Rockport Cuyahoga Co., Ohio
all the son's were on this census.
1840 census same place Joseph and George were there
but Henry and James were not listed.
By 1850 Henry and Ruth were in Barry, Barry Co., Michigan
George and Hannah were located in Hope, Barry Co., Michigan
Joseph and Eleanor in 1850 and 1860 were Olmstead, Cuyahoga Co., Ohio
James is gone but Agness N Peak age 67 is located in Middlebrugh,
Cuyahoga Co, Ohio living with Joseph and Elizabeth Peak