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sou, dated 1775, a portion of which is shown in map 4, the trading 

 path is distinctly shown approximately 36 miles to the east of the 

 islands at the confluence of the Staunton and Dan Kivers, crossing 

 just above the falls in the Koanoke River in the vicinity of "Charles" 

 and "Beverley" islands, as noted by Bland (Alvord and Bidgood, 

 1912, p. 24), and it continued southward and north of "Akonichi" on 

 the Eno Eiver, which was located to the east of "Old Haw Fields." 

 On this same map there is an "Occaneachey Neck" about 30 miles to 

 the east of the crossing at the confluence of Wheelers ISIill Creek. 

 This "Akonichi" on the Eno River is probably the location of the 

 Occaneechi as indicated by Lawson in 1701 (in Jefferys, 1775). 



Swanton (1922, pi. 3) shows a map (map 5) giving the distribution 

 of the Indian tribes in the Southeast about the year 1715. To the 

 south of the North Carolina-Virginia boundary line, on the Moratock 

 River, there is located quite a large island labeled "Aconiche I." 

 Swanton's map is a facsimile of John Lawson's map of 1709 and was 

 redrawn from a blueprint of the original in the British Archives. 

 This map was used by Hawkes and Linton, and our second map (map 

 6) in Jefferys Atlas, drawn by "Henry Mouzon and Others," dated 

 1775, showing the "Roads and Indian Paths from Actual Surveys," 

 does not depict any path or road in the immediate vicinity of the 

 "Ocheneachey Islands" that is shown in its relationship to the 

 confluence of two rivers. 



Thomas Hutchins (1904) on his map dated 1778 does not show 

 Occaneechi Islands or any road or path in the immediate vicinity of 

 the location of the islands. He does portray a road crossing the 

 Staunton River in the vicinity of Salem, Va., running southward and 

 ending up on the Dan River in the vicinity of Martinsville, Va. 



Myer (1928, p. 775) made an extensive study of the old Indian trail 

 systems of the Southeastern United States during the Colonial Period 

 and placed the Occaneechi Trading Path in the vicinity of the great 

 falls of the Roanoke River, 36 miles below the confluence of the two 

 rivers (map 7) . He said : 



This trail led from Bermuda Hundred on tlie James River and old Fort 

 Henry (later Petersburg), Virginia, southwestardly to the important Indian 

 trading town of the Occaneechi on Roanoke River, where it crossed the present 

 line between Virginia and North Carolina [writer's italics]. Thence it passed 

 on to the Catawba, Cherokee, and other tribes in southwestern North Carolina 

 and northwestern South Carolina and from the Catawba via the Congaree post 

 to the site of the present Augusta, Georgia, where it connected with other trails 

 leading to various sections of the Southeast. Its entire length was somewhat 

 over 500 miles. 



Swanton, in editing Myer's report, probably altered the map to 

 show that the trading path was in the vicinity of the islands at the 

 confluence of the Staunton (Roanoke) and Dan Rivers and that the 



