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CAPE FEAR INDIANS 



A body of Indians whose affiliations were probably with the 

 Siouan peoples to the south of them. They may have been a part of 

 the Waccamaw tribe, as no native name for them has been preserved, 

 merely the name of a village, Necoes, and a chief, Wat Coosa. In 

 1661 a colony from New England settled near them, but soon pro- 

 voked their enmity by seizing and sending away their children under 

 the pretense of having them educated. In consequence, the colonists 

 were soon driven off. In 1663 a party from Barbadoes repeated the 

 attempt at settlement and was equally unfortunate. In 1665 a third 

 colony settled at the mouth of Oldtown Creek, in Brunswick County 

 on the south side of the river, but, though the Indians were friendly, 

 the whites soon left. In 1695 these Indians rescued 52 passengers 

 from a New England vessel wrecked on their coast, who later formed 

 the nucleus of Christ Church Parish north of Cooper River. After 

 the Yamasee War they were removed to South Carolina and settled 

 inland from Charleston — as Milling thinks, somewhere in the present 

 Williamsburg County. In 1749 the South Carolina Council made 

 a proclamation to protect them against their white neighbors. South 

 Carolina documents dated 1808 state that within the memory of men 

 then living there were 30 Indians of the Pedee and Cape Fear tribes 

 in the parishes of St. Stephens and St. Johns, under "King Johnny." 

 There they probably died out, though some may have joined the 

 Indians of Lumber River or the Catawba. 



Cafe Fear Indian Population. — The census of 1715, taken just be- 

 fore the Yamasee War, returned 5 towns with a population of 206. 

 Only one mixed-blood woman survived in 1808. 



CAPINANS 



When Iberville and the French colonists who accompanied him 

 reached Biloxi Bay in 1699 they learned of two tribes in the immedi- 

 ate neighborhood called Biloxi and Pascagoula (q.v.). Associated 

 with their names is a third, Moctobi, which disappears soon after- 

 ward and has sometimes been regarded as the Biloxi name for the 

 Pascagoula, or vice versa. There is, however, some reason to think 

 that it refers to a town or tribe with the same associations later 

 mentioned under the name Capinans. Besides being placed beside 

 the terms Biloxi and Pascagoula in several documents, in Bienville's 

 memoir of about 1725 the Capinans, or "Capinas," as he has it, 

 appear in one village with the Pascagoula 12 leagues up Pascagoula 

 River. The name of this tribe bears considerable resemblance to the 

 *'Capitanesses" laid down west of Susquehanna River on the Carte 

 Figurative dated 1614. If they were a part of the Biloxi or related 



