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TDSCARORA 



[b. a. e. 



who had fallen upon them and had 

 killed 16 persons, owing to the refusal of 

 the Saxapahaw to join the Tuscarora 

 against the English. The Saxapahaw 

 had just reached the AVattomas when 

 Barnwell arrived there. After reaching 

 Neuse r. Barnwell numbered his men 

 before crossing, and found that he had 

 498 Indians and 33 white men. He com- 

 plained that there was a great desertion 

 of the Indians; that onlv 67 remained of 

 Capt. Bull's 200. On "taking Ft Nar- 

 hantes, "head Town of ye Tuscaruros," 

 on Jan. 30, 1712, he and his men were 

 greatly surprised and puzzled to find 

 within two log houses much stronger 

 than the outer fort. After gaining an 

 entrance, he says, while "we were put- 

 ting the men to the sword, our Indians 

 got all the slaves and the plunder, only 

 one girl we gott." This was the strong- 

 est fort in that part of the country. His 

 loss was 7 white men killed and at least 

 32 wounded; the Indian loss was 6 killed 

 and 28 wounded; the Tuscarora loss was 

 52 men killed and at least 10 women, and 

 30 prisoners. Barnwell was much cha- 

 grined at his great loss, "with no greater 

 execution of ye enemy." De Graffen- 

 ried, in speaking of this encounter, says 

 he " marched against a great Indian vil- 

 lage, called Core, about 30 miles distant 

 from Newbern, drove out the King and 

 his forces, and carried the day with such 

 fury, that, after they had killed a great 

 many, in order to stimulate themselves 

 still more, they cooked the flesh of an 

 Indian 'in good condition' and ate it." 

 So it appears that Narhantes was a Coree 

 village, whose King was called Cor Tom. 

 Barnwell then advanced on Catechna, or 

 King Hencock's town, in which had 

 taken refuge a medley of Indians from 

 the Weetock, Bay, Neuse, Cor, Pamlico, 

 and a portion of the Tuscarora tribe. 

 After two assaults, which the Indians 

 successfully repulsed, Barnwell, in order 

 to save from massacre the white prison- 

 ers within the fort, induced the Indians 

 to enter into a truce with him on condi- 

 tion that the white prisoners be liberated; 

 and he returned to Newbern with his 

 small army for refreshment. Barnwell 

 had hoped for great honors and gifts from 

 North Carolina, but being disappointed 

 in this hope, and wishing to return home 

 with his forces with some profit, he lured, 

 under pretence of peace, a large number 

 of the Indians to the neighborhood of 

 Cor village and then broke the truce by 

 capturing them and carrying them away 

 to be soltl into slavery. This naturally 

 incensed the Tuscarora and other Caro- 

 lina Indians, and caused them to lose all 

 confidence in the word of a white man. 

 This change of affairs resulted in repeated 

 raids by the Indians along Neuse and 



Pamlico rs., and "the last troubles were 

 worse than the first." 



Solicitations by the North Carolina au- 

 thorities were made to the Government 

 of South Carolina for new aid, which was 

 granted, under Colonel INloore, with a body 

 of 33 white men and more than 900 Indian 

 allies, M'ho were probably reenforced by 

 North Carolina recruits. His objective 

 point was the palisaded town of Catechna, 

 or Hencock's village. In a letter dated 

 Mar. 27, 1713, to President Pollock of 

 North Carolina, just after he had taken 

 the palisaded town of "Neoheroka" in 

 Greene co., N. C, which lay on his route 

 to Catechna, he reported that the attack 

 was begun on the 20th and that on the 

 morning of the 23d "wee had gott ye 

 fort to ye ground." He states that the 

 prisoners taken were 392, that the scalps 

 taken in the fort numbered 192, that 

 there were 200 killed and burned in the 

 fort, and 166 persons killed and taken 

 "out of ye fort on ye Scout," a total of 

 950. His own loss was 22 white men 

 killed and 36 wounded; the loss of hia 

 Indians was 35 killed and 58 wounded. 

 This severe loss so awed the Tuscarora 

 that they abandoned fort "Cohunche," 

 situated at Hencock's town, and migrated 

 northward toward the territory of the 

 Five Nations. 



Prior to the arrival of Col. Moore, Presi- 

 dent Pollock had entered into an arrange- 

 ment with Tom Blunt, the leading chief 

 of the "Northern Tuscarora," to seize 

 chief Hencock, who was the reputed head 

 of the hostile Tuscarora, and to bring him 

 alive to the President for the purpose of 

 adjusting their mutual difficulties and to 

 negotiate peace. Blunt's Tuscarora were 

 to destroy the hostiles who had taken 

 part in the massacre and to deliver hos- 

 tages for their own good behavior — this 

 arrangement was to continue only until 

 the new year. After the defeat of the 

 Tuscarora by Moore, another treaty was 

 made with Tom Blunt and his Tuscarora, 

 thus leaving as hostile only the small 

 tribes of the Coree, Matamuskeet, and 

 Catechna. All of Moore's Indians except 

 about 180 returned to South Carolina to 

 sell their captives into slavery. With the 

 remaining forces Moore soon reduced and 

 drove away the few remaining hostiles. 



The date of the adoption of the Tusca- 

 rora into the council board of the League 

 of the Iroquois, through the Oneida, their 

 political sponsors, is indefinite, judging 

 from the differing dates, ranging from 

 1712 to 1715, given by various well- 

 informed writers. In their forced migra- 

 tion northward the Tuscarora did not all 

 decamp at once. The hostiles and their 

 most apprehensive sympathizers were 

 most probably the first to leave their 

 ancient homes in North Carolina. On the 



