The chief or werowance of the Yaocomaco at St. Mary’s City lived on a prominent point of land later named Church Point by the early English colonists. Near the werowance’s house was a huge mulberry tree. As John Smith noted, Chesapeake Indians often left fruit and nut trees standing near their homes. Tradition tells that it was under this tree that the Yaocomaco chief and Governor Leonard Calvert negotiated for the founding of colony. The mulberry tree survived into the 1880s and became a symbol of the peaceful Chesapeake Indian and English interaction at the beginning of Maryland.