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stronin cnll'd Sauro creek, wlucli rnnimifi out of the Dfin, and tendini;" westerly, 

 makes the whole a poninsiila (L5yrd, 17). 



There amy have been two vilhige^ occupied by the tribe in this neigh- 

 borhood, as on a map of 1700 we find this spot designated as "Lower 

 Saura Town" wliile about 30 miles above, on the southern side of the 

 Dan, ami between it and Town fork, is another place marked " IT])per 

 Saura Town." This latter was on tlie site of the present Sauratown in 

 Stokes county. North Carolina. The two towns thus designated, how- 

 ever, were white settlements. 



The Sara were not met by Lawson in 1701, as they lived west of his 

 line of travel. Shortly after this date, finding themselves no longer 

 able to w^ithstaiid the unceasing attacks of the Iroquois, they aban- 

 doned their beautiful home on the Dan and, moving southeastward, 

 joined the Keyauwee (Byrd, 18). The Eno, Shoccoree, and Adshu- 

 sheer also consolidated at the same time for a similar reason, the three 

 being thenceforth commonly known under the single name of Eno. 

 TheSaponi, Tutelo, and Occaneechi, who had joined forces about the 

 same time, moved eastAvard to the neighborhood of the white settle- 

 ments on Albemarle sound, and were shortly afterward settled by Gov- 

 ernor Spotswood at Fort Christanna in Virginia, as already stated. In 

 171G he also undertook to settle the confederated Sara, Keyauwee, 

 and Eno (probal)ly including also the Shoccoree and Adshusheer) at 

 Enotown, on the fnmtier of the Tuskarora, on the upper Neuse in 

 North Carolina, where he intended that they should serve as a protec- 

 tion to the white settlements against the incursions of the hostile Tus- 

 karora and their allies from the north, and against the hostile Yamasi 

 and their allies, Avho had lately killed their traders and inaugurated 

 a war against the whites, on the south. This plan might have been 

 successful had it not been defeated by the vigorous protest of the two 

 Carolina governments, which insisted that the Sara were at that 

 moment engaged in the war against South Carolina and that the Eno 

 and Keyauwee were probably aiding them. At the same time, by 

 request of the southern colony, North Carolina raised a force of whites 

 and Indians to attack the Sara themselves (N. C. R., 6). A few weeks 

 later it was reported that a white man and an Indian slave had been 

 killed on the South Carolina frontier by a party of Indians supposed 

 to be Sara, who appeared to be well supplied with arms and ammu- 

 nition. It was believed that they were some of those with whom Spots- 

 wood had lately been negotiating, and that they had obtained their 

 supplies in Virginia; and a letter was accordingly forwarded to the 

 governor of that colony asking him to prohibit any trading with the 

 Sara or any other southern tribes until they had first made peace with 

 South Carolina. About the same time Governor Eden, of North Caro- 

 lina, declared war against the Sara, and made formal application to 

 Virginia to assist in prosecuting it. To this Spotswood replied, with 

 the concurrence of the Virginia council, that the Sara were under a 

 treaty of friendship with Virginia, whicli had had the approbation of 



