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the youth Carolina govermnent; that they had come into Virginia under 

 a promise, of safety; aud that in the late encounter the Carolina people 

 had been the aggressors and had attacked the Indians without provo- 

 cation. The council therefore declined to take part in a war "so 

 unjustly begun" (N. C. E., 7). 



The war against the Sara and their allies was carried on by the 

 two Carolina governments until the final defeat and expulsion of the 

 Yamasi from South Carolina. Throughout tliis war there were 

 frequent complaints from South Carolina that tbe Sara were responsi- 

 ble for most of the mischief done north of Santee river, and that they 

 were endeavoring to draw the Winyaw and Waccamaw into the 

 same alliance. Their arms and ammunition were said to be supplied 

 from Virginia in return for skins, slaves, and goods plundered from 

 South Carolina settlers, and it was openly charged by Carolina that 

 Virginia encouraged these depredations in order to monopolize the 

 Indian trade, so that one of the South Carolina writers was moved to 

 declare, "I heartily wish Virginia had all our Indians, so we were but 

 secured from them" (N. C. II., 8). 



At the close of the Yamasi war the Sara tribe, who now begin to be 

 known as Cheraw, were located on the upper Pedee where it crosses 

 from North Carolina into South Carolina. The adjacent district in 

 South Carolina was for a long time known as the Cheraw precinct. 

 According to the old maps their village at this time was on the eastern 

 bank of the Pedee, about opposite the present Cheraw, in Marlboro 

 county. South Carolina. In 1715 they were reported to number 510 

 souls (Rivers, 1). This estimate, which seems too high, probably 

 includes the Keyauwee, who still lived with or near them. Accord- 

 ing to the reports of Blount, chief of the friendly Tuskarora, they 

 occasionally made inroads on his people and even attacked and plun- 

 dered the Virginia traders (N. C. K., 9) ; but Blount's testimony is open 

 to suspicion, as he was constantly endeavoring to increase his imijor- 

 tance with the whites by discovering hostile conspiracies among the 

 other Indians. However this may be, the remaining Tuskarora in 

 1717 received permission to remove from the ISTeuse to the northern 

 side of the Eoanoke, in order to be more secure from the southern 

 tribes. The Sara Avere still exposed to the attacks of the Iroquois, of 

 which there are records so late as 1726 (N. Y., IG), and were finally 

 obliged to abandon their settlement and incorporate with the Catawba, 

 who at an earlier period had been their enemies, on Catawba river, 

 farther westward. Being a considerable tribe, however, they still 

 preserved their separate name and dialect for a long time. They are 

 mentioned as living with the Catawba as early as 1739 (Gregg, 1), 

 and their dialect is mentioned as existing distinct from that of the 

 Catawba as late as 1743 (Adair, 2). In 1751 they are again men- 

 tioned as one of the southern tribes adjoining the settlements with 

 whom it was desired that the Iroquois should make peace (N. Y., 17). 

 In the French and Indian war they aud the Catawba aided tlie 



