slooNrv] ENO AND SHOCCOREE EARLY HISTORY. t)3 



the same that appears in Usheree, Uharee, and Enoree, the hist-iiuined 

 river i)erhaps taking its designation from the Eno tribe, 



Lederer found the villages of the two tribes about 14 miles aparv, 

 the Eno the farther eastward. The Eno village was surrounded by 

 large fields cleared by the industry of the Indians, and was itself built 

 around a central tiekl or plaza devoted to an athletic game described 

 by the traveler as " slinging of stones," in which "they exercise with 

 so much labor and violence and in so great numbers that I have seen 

 the ground wet with the sweat that dropped from their bodies." He 

 agrees with Yardley as to their small size, but not as to their bravery 

 or other good qualities, stating that " they are of mean stature and 

 courage, covetous and thievish, industrious to earn a penny, and there- 

 fore hire themselves out to their neighbors who employ them as car- 

 ryers or porters. They plant abundance of grain, reap three crops in 

 a summer, and out of their granary supply all the adjacent parts." The 

 character thus outlined accords more with that of the peaceful Pueblos 

 than with that of any of our eastern tribes, and goes far to indicate a 

 diflerent origin. Their liousebuilding also was different from that of 

 their neighbors, but resembled that of the mountain Indians. Instead 

 of building their houses of bark, like the Virginia and Carolina In- 

 dians generally, they used branches interwoven and covered with mud 

 or plaster. Some huts were built of reeds (canes) and bark. They 

 were usually round instead of long as among the coast tribes. Near 

 every house there was a smaller structure, somewhat resembling an 

 oven, in which tliey stored corn and nuts. This is identical with the 

 H"7i'atdli or provision house of the Cherokee. In summer they slept 

 under leafy arbors. The government was democratic and patriarchal, 

 the decisions of their old men being received with unquestioning obedi- 

 ence. The Shoccoree resembled the Eno in their general customs and 

 manners (Lederer, 9). 



In 1701 Lawson found the Eno and Shoccoree, now confederated, 

 with the addition of the Adshusheer, in the same location. Their 

 village, which he calls Adshusheer, was on Eno river, about 11 miles 

 east of the Occaneechi village, near the present Ilillsboro. This would 

 place it not far northeast of Durham, in Durham county, North Caro- 

 lina. Eno Will, a Coree by birth, Avas the chief of the three tribes. 

 lie entertained the party in most hospitable fashion at Adshusheer, 

 singing them to sleep with an Indian lullaby, and afterwards guided 

 them from the Occaneechi to near the white settlements on Albemarle 

 sound, Lawson describes him as "one of the best and most agreeable 

 temper that ever I met with in an Indian, being always ready to 

 serve the English, not out of gain, but real affection." 



They kept poultry, but, so Lawson thought, largely for the purpose 

 of sacritjce to the devil. They had not forgotten their old game men- 

 tioned by Lederer, which may now be recognized as the universal 

 wheeland-stick game of the eastern and southern tribes; for Lawson 

 sayain his narrative that they were " much addicted to a sport they call 



