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Research
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Archaeology (Top
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Coastal Carolina Indian Center would like to
extend a very special thank you to Dr. David Phelps and Charles Heath for making
the archaeology reports below available for publication on our website. The work
done by these men, as well as others over the years, has yielded tremendous
information and answers about a past that no one living today could recount.
Particularly in relation to Colonial era sites, the archaeological information
provided in these reports is invaluable, because unfortunately, the Colonial
Record provides only information from the outside perspective of colonial forces
fighting the Tuscarora and other Indian nations, rather than reports from within
the forts. The archaeologists who have painstakingly excavated these sites have,
with great care and attention to detail, recorded history that would have
otherwise been lost to the sands of time.
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Woodland Period Mortuary
Variability in the Lower Roanoke River Valley: Perspectives from the
Jordans Landing, Sans Souci and Dickerson Sites by Charles L.
Heath, RPA for Fort Bragg Cultural Resources Management Program, XVIII
Airborne Corps and Fort Bragg and Department of Anthropology, Research
Laboratories of Archaeology - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Architecture of a
Tuscarora Fortress: The Neoheroka Fort and the Tuscarora War (17111715)
by Charles L. Heath, Cultural Resources Program*, Fort Bragg, NC and David
S. Phelps, Coastal Archaeology Office, East Carolina University,
Greenville, NC.
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Cashie Series Ceramics
from the Interior Coastal Plain of North Carolina, Circa AD 8001725
by David S. Phelps, Coastal Archaeology Office, East Carolina University,
Greenville, NC and Charles L. Heath, Cultural Resources Program*, Fort
Bragg, NC.
Carolina Pine Newsletters (Top
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Volume I, Issue 1, Summer 2005
CCIC in the Media Re-creating the village of Secota CCIC assists in
search for Lost Colony Seeds of Knowledge: Bay River Indians Solving
Family Mysteries
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Volume I, Issue
3, Early 2006 The Algonquian Language Reborn - An Interview with
Dr. Blair Rudes, Ph.D. Film Review: The New World Seeds of Knowledge:
Examples of Conflict in Colonial Carolina Apprentice Bonds
Genealogy (Top
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- Surnames Database Project - This
database features a series of full name/surname lists based on
associations with particular tribes or special areas of research.
This database will be updated regularly, so check back often (or sign up for
CCIC
News Updates and know the moment the updates are posted.)
- 1790 Coastal Carolina Indian
Cross-Reference Database (aka "Free People of Color") that appear on
the 1790 Federal Census for several eastern North Carolina counties.
Cross-referencing includes known Indian communities on historic maps,
as well as modern-day counterparts; known Indian surnames;
and reference links to original sources.
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Bertie County Deed Book M -
lists several Tuscarora individuals as signers of Tuscarora reservation
deeds in Bertie County.
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Indians in Carteret County
extracted and submitted to CCIC by Kevin Davis. A number of entries from
the Court Records of Carteret County, 1723-1820 of named Indian
individuals.
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Researching Indian Ancestry
by Sara Whitford.
If you have come to this site because you are just beginning a search into
possible Indian ancestry, please read this page for tips on researching
Indian genealogy first.
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Apprentice Bonds for
Free People of Color in Craven County, North Carolina (1769-1830)
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In researching Indian ancestry, it's important
to note that for a variety of reasons in history (usually economic or
socio-political), Indian people were often recorded as any race other than
Indian. Sometimes "White," other times "Black," or "Negro," and other times
"Free Person of Color," "Colored," or "Mulatto."
- Surname Research Notes
History (Top of
Page)
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The Trial of Baron Christoph von Graffenried and Surveyor General John
Lawson - An excerpt from von Graffenried's Account of the
Founding of New Bern. Details the journey made by Lawson and von
Graffenried into Tuscarora territory, including their capture, trial, and
the execution of John Lawson.
- "Tuscarora
Ascendancy" - This article which appeared in the October 1982 issue
of The North Carolina Historical Review, was written by Dr. Thomas
Parramore (former Meredith College professor and one of the most
knowledgeable and thorough historians to have ever written about the Indians
of eastern North Carolina.) This piece is frequently cited for its in-depth
information on the wide-spread influence of the Tuscarora nation in North
Carolina in the colonial period. If you'd like to find out how to obtain
back issues of The North Carolina Historical Review, or if you'd like
to purchase books from the North Carolina Historical Publications Store
(part of North Carolina Division of Cultural Resources),
please click here.
To see copyright notices regarding this article,
click here.
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Saponi Lands in Eastern North Carolina - Information on mid-18th
century Saponi lands in present-day Wayne County. Includes Cliffs of the
Neuse State Park (est. 1945.)
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Excerpts from the Journal
of John Barnwell - According to Barnwell, Fort Hancock was designed
for the Tuscaroras by a "runaway negro" slave named Harry. Also in this
entry (representing one single day of Barnwell's long campaign against the
Tuscarora) Barnwell insults and condemns the local Palatines who had
participated with him in his assault on the fort by calling them "cowards"
and saying that for their running from the assault rather than proceeding
according to his orders, the Tuscaroras, "deservedly shott sevll of them in
their arses." After rattling off casualty statistics, he then proceeds to
brag incessantly about the bravery of his own South Carolina men.
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Excerpts from Hawks' History of
North Carolina, Vol. 2 - Selections relating to the period of the
Tuscarora War (1711-1713). Tuscaroras, Senecas, Meherrins, Mattamuskeets and
Englishmen refusing to serve in the war against the Tuscaroras and their
allies are mentioned.
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Entries Regarding the
Indian Revolt of 1711 - From Hawks' History of North Carolina, Vol.
2. Gives descriptions of the events surrounding the Tuscarora and allies
revolt and attack upon the colonists along the Neuse and Pamlico Rivers.
(Hawks had reprinted these from the Colonial Records.)
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1699 Articles of Agreement with the Bay
(Bear) River Indians - From the
North Carolina Colonial Record. Agreement between chief men of the Bay River
Indians and colonials assuring the that the Indians would have no trouble
with the English provided they assist them in various manners and turn over
any Indians who have, or were planning to commit crimes against the English
to English authorities to face justice.
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North Carolina Resolutions against
Bay River Indians, Tuscaroras and their allies. This series of
orders from the North Carolina Colonial Record (Second Series, Vol. VII) -
1711-1712, explains the colonies intentions against the Tuscarora and Bay
River Indians in the wake of the September 22, 1711 Indian revolt against
the colonists along the Neuse and Pamlico Rivers.
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Indian "Settlements" in
the Post-War Era - Brief
descriptions from Hawks' History relating to the various settlements
(reservations/territories) specified for Indian use in the post-Tuscarora
War era.
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Col. Pollock's
letter to the Lords Proprietors - Describes the worried state of the
colonials in the wake of the death of Gov. Hyde, and in the midst of the
"Tuscarora War." Also has an example of the common colonial reference to all
Indians belonging to the Haudenosaunee as "Senecas."
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Laws Regarding Servants
and Slaves - Describes early
colonial North Carolina laws in reference to indentured servants and slaves,
particularly in regards to race. For instance, the unfortunate, innocent
child born to a white servant woman while under indenture was placed into
bondage at birth until age 31. For getting pregnant during her indenture,
she would be bound to serve an additional two years, and if the father of
the child was Indian, black, or mulatto, on top of serving two additional
years, she'd also have to pay an enormous 6 pound fine at the end of her
servitude.
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Extracts from the Discoveries of
John Lederer - From Hawks'
History of North Carolina, Vol. 2. "In three several Marches from
Virginia to the west of Carolina, and other parts of the Continent; begun in
March, 1669, and ended in September, 1670. Collected and translated out of
Latin from his discourse and writings, by SIR WILLIAM TALBOT, Baronet.
Printed in London, in 1672."
- "Craven
County, North Carolina - Its Origin and Beginning"
by Dr. Charles R. Hollowell (Includes Tuscarora Peace Treaty of 1712)
- Gov.
Dobbs on French-Indian War (1754) - A message from His Excellency
Arthur Dobbs, Esq; Captain-General and Governor in Chief, in and over his
Majesty's Province of North-Carolina. To the General Assembly, held at
Newbern, the twelfth day of December, 1754. [Proposing] a plan of union with
all the British Colonies, for our mutual future defence [Newbern Printed by
James Davis, 1754].
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1766 Tuscarora Land Lease
- From The Colonial Records of North Carolina (Second Series): Records of
the Executive Council 1755-1775. Cain, Robert J. (Editor) Division of
Archives and History, North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources,
Raleigh. 1994.
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The Meherrin - Susquehannah
Connection - An interesting entry from The Colonial Records of
North Carolina, Second Series - Volume VII - Records of the Executive
Council - 1674-1734. This entry describes a petition by the Meherrin to
have land surveyed for them to be assigned a reservation, and a second
petition from local inhabitants claiming that the Meherrin have not always
been in the area where they were living at the time of the petition, that
they are actually Susquehannahs who had come into the colony of North
Carolina from the region between Pennsylvania and Maryland.
- "Death of a Reservation" -
Excerpt from The Tuscaroras, Vol. 2 by F. Roy Johnson. This excerpt
from a chapter in Johnson's book discusses the demise of the Tuscarora
reservation in Bertie County at Indian Woods, and the exodus from the
reservation by Tuscaroras to the north and other areas of North Carolina.
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