In 1670, Col. Catlett was killed by Indians while defending the fort located at the present site of Port Royal. Port Royal's 17th century pirate is immortalized in the name Peumansend Creek. A French pirate, a Monsieur Peuman, was the scourge of the settlers. Eventually they chased him up the creek and killed him. Thus the name "Peuman's End", a name which appeared on deeds as early as 1670. The earliest dwellings in the area were probably of log construction, none of which exist today. What the visitor can enjoy, however, is a collection of 18th and 19th century homes in a setting largely unchanged in the town's 250 year old history. Tobacco was Virginia's money crop in its colonial days and became the medium of exchange with salaries and debts pain in paper receipts at the tobacco warehouse. In 1673 Richard Buckner established a tobacco warehouse which was later acquired by another early settler, John Roy. In 1731 a rolling road was constructed from Milford to Port Royal, for the purpose of rolling hogsheads of tobacco down to the docks for shipment. Port Royal was incorporated as a town in 1744. The "town green", upon which stands today the Town Hall and the firehouse, was forever reserved "for public and civic use".