 The following year, John Mottrom served as the first burgess for the territory in the House of Burgesses, which met at the capital of the Virginia Colony at Jamestown.The colonial court ordered the two tribes to merge and by 1655, assigned them a reservation of near Dividing Creek, south of the Great Wicomico River.By the early 1700s, the Wicocomico tribe was greatly reduced, and English colonists took control of their lands.