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English against the French smd their allies, an<l in 1759 a party of 45 

 "Charraws/'sonie of whom, under their chief, King Johnny, had been 

 in the expedition against Fort l)ii Quesne, brought into Charleston the 

 scalp of a French Indian (Gregg, 2). The last notice of the tribe 

 ■ seems to be in 17G8, when we find them still living with the Catawba, 

 but so reduced by Avars and sickness that they nundjered only 50 or 

 (>0 souls (Mass., 3). The Catawba and all their confederate tribes 

 together then numbered only about 500 souls. 



THE KEYAUWEE. 



The name of the Keyauwee has no connection with that of Kecowee 

 town of the Cherokee on Keowee river, in western South Carolina, nor 

 apparently with that of Kiawah island, south of Charleston. Of their 

 language nothing remains, but the evidence of alliance and history 

 goes to show that they were Siouan. They were never prominent as a 

 separate tribe. In 170L Lawson found them i£i a palisaded village 

 about 5 miles beyond " Heigh waree" (Uharie) river, and near another 

 stream which was probably Deei) river. The village was about 30 miles 

 northeast of the Yadkin, and nuist have been about the present High 

 point in Guilford countj^ North Carolina. It was shut in by high hills 

 or mountains, nearly bare of timber or grass, being composed of a red- 

 dish earth from which the Indians obtained their mineral paint. In one 

 of these mountains was a large cave. Around the village were large 

 fields of corn. At that time they were about equal to the Saponi in num- 

 ber, and were ruled by Keyauwee Jack, who was by birth a Congaree, 

 but had obtained the chieftainship by marriage with the queen. 

 Lawson describes the daughter of this queen as a beautiful girl, 

 with an air of nuijesty not common among Indians, She treated his 

 party kindly, and they were well entertained during their stay. Most 

 of the men of this tribe wore mustaches or whiskers, which was not the 

 general custom of the Indians, who usually plucked their beards. 



Incidentally the traveler mentions that all the Indians of that neigh- 

 borhood carefully preserved the bones taken out of the meat they ate 

 and afterward burned them, believing that if this were not done the 

 game would leave the country and they would have no more success 

 in hunting. At this time they were about to join the Tutelo and 

 Saponi for greater protection against their enemies. 



In 1714 the Keyauwee, with the Saponi, Tutelo, Occaneechi, and 

 Shoccoree, had moved down toward the settlements about Albemarle 

 sound; all five tribes, together with one or two not mentioned, num- 

 bering only about 750 souls (Lawson, 5). In 1710 Governor Spots- 

 wood proposed to settle the Keyauwee, with the Eno and Sara at 

 Enotown, on the frontier of the North Carolina settlements, as already 

 related, but was prevented by the opposition of that c(dony. Failing 

 in this, they moved southward along with the Sara and probably also 

 the Eno to Pedee river in South Caroliua some time before 1733 (Byrd, 



