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River of Stonoe, & the freshes of the River of Edistah, doe for us ourselves, our sub- 
jects & vassals, grant, &c, whole part & parcell called great & lesser Cussoe unto the 
Right IIon Wo Anthony Earl of Shaftsbury, Lord Baron Ashly of Wimborne St. Gyles', 
Lord Cooper of Pawlet, &c, 10 March, 1675. Marks of The Great Cassiq, &c, an In- 
dian Captain, a hill Captain, &C. 1 
To this are appended the signatures of several witnesses. What 
appears to have been a still more sweeping cession was made to 
Maurice Mathews in 1682 by the "chief of Stonah, chief tainess of 
Edisloh, chief of Asshepoo, chieftainess of St. Hellena, chief of Com- 
bahe, chief of Cussah, chief of Wichcauh, chief of Wimbee." 2 In 
1693 there was a short war with the Stono, a tribe which had already 
showed itself hostile on more than one occasion/' The same year 
we read that the Chihaw King complained of the cruel treatment 
he had received from John Palmer, who had barbarously beaten and 
cut him with his broadsword. These "Chihaw" were perhaps in 
South Carolina and not representatives of that much better known 
band among the Creeks. 4 A body of Cusabo were in Col. John Barn- 
well's army raised to attack the Tuscarora in 1711-12. 5 In 1712 was 
passed an act for "settling the Island called Palawana, upon the 
Cusaboe Indians now living in Granville County and upon their Pos- 
terity forever." From the terms of this act it appears that "most of 
the Plantations of the said Cusaboes" were already situated upon 
that island which is described as "near the Island of St. Helena, 71 
but that it had fallen into private hands. 
The act reads as follows: 
Whereas the Cusaboe Indians of Granville County, are the native and ancient 
inhabitants of the Sea Coasts of this Province, and kindly entertained the first English 
who arrived in the same, and are useful to the Government for Watching and Discov- 
ering Enemies, and finding Shipwreck'd People; And whereas the Island called 
Palawana near the Island of St. Helena, upon which most of the Plantations of the said 
Cusaboes now are, was formerly by Inadvertancy granted by the Right Honorable the 
Lords Proprietors of this Province, to Matthew Smallwood, and by him sold and trans- 
ferred to James Cockram, whose Property and Possession it is at present; Be it En- 
acted by the most noble Prince Henry Duke of Beauford, Palatine, and the Rest of 
the Right Honorable the true and absolute Lords and Proprietors of Carolina, together 
with the Advice and Consent of the Members of the General Assembly now met at 
Charles- Town for the South West Part of this Province, That from and after the Rati- 
fication of this Act, the Island of Palawana, lying nigh the Island of St. Helena, in 
Granville County, containing between Four and Five Hundred Acres of Land, be it 
more or less, now in the Possession of James Cockram as aforesaid, shall be and is 
hereby declared to be invested in the aforesaid Cusaboe Indians, and in their Heirs 
forever. 6 
» S. Car. Hist. Soc. Colls., v, pp. 455-457. 
2 Rivers, Hist. S. Car., p. 38, 1856; Public Records of S. O, 36, p. 125. 
3 Logan, a Hist, of the Upper Country of S. C, pp. 191-192; Carroll, Hist. Colls. S. Car., I, p. 74. 
By later writers this disturbance was in some way associated with the Westo war and the Stono ami 
Westo were coupled together on this acco-int and because of a superficial resemblance between their 
4 Carroll, op. cit., p. 116. 
6 S. Car. Hist, and Gen. Mag., 9, pp. 30-31, 1908. 
i Laws of the Province of South Carolina, by Nicholas Trott I L763), No. 338, p .'77. quoted 
in 18th Ann. Rept. Bur. Amer. Eton., pt. 2, p. 633. 
