206 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHN0LCK5Y f Bull. 137 



WAXHAW 



If this tribe is the Gueza of Vandera, it was living in 1566-67 in 

 western South Carolina north of the present Augusta, Ga., but when 

 the English entered this country toward the end of the seventeenth 

 century, it was close to the Catawba Indians in what are now Lancaster 

 County, S. C, and Union and Mecklenburg Counties, N. C. In 1670 

 Lederer seems to speak of these people under the name Wisacky, and 

 they may have been the Weesock of Gabriel Arthur, reputed to be held 

 as a subject caste by the Yuchi. In 1701 Lawson was hospitably 

 received by them and he gives more regarding their customs than any 

 other writer. At that time there were at least two Waxhaw villages 10 

 miles apart. In 1715 we learn from the South Carolina archives that 

 when this tribe refused to make peace with the colonists, they were 

 attacked by the Catawba and the greater part of them killed, the re- 

 mainder seeking refuge with the Cheraw, along with whom they prob- 

 ably united with the Catawba at a later date, though some are 

 undoubtedly now represented among the Lumber River Indians. A 

 band of 25 Waxhaw accompanied the Yamasee to Florida in 1715 and 

 were still there in 1720. 



Waxhaw population. — Apart from the reference to two villages 

 above, there seem to be no data on which an estimate of Waxhaw popu- 

 lation may be based, but they were evidently a relatively small tribe. 



WEAPEMEOC 



A tribe or tribal confederation found by the Raleigh colonists in 

 1584-89 occupying the northeastern corner of North Carolina, north 

 of Albemarle Sound. When we again get a view of the territory they 

 occupied about a century later, we find it held by a number of inde- 

 pendent tribes including the Yeopim, probably the principal tribe of 

 the old confederation and the one which had given it its name, the 

 Pasquotank, Perquiman, and Poteskeet. The names of two of these 

 are preserved as county designations. In 1662 the Yeopim chief 

 parted with some of his lands, and by 1701, according to Lawson, there 

 was only a single Yeopim warrior living, though the remaining tribes 

 of the group still counted 40. 



Weapemeoc population, — Mooney estimated that there may have 

 been 800 Weapemeoc in 1600. (See above.) In 1709 Lawson gave 

 the number of warriors of the tribes in the former Weapemeoc terri- 

 tory as follows : Pasquotank, 10 ; Poteskeet, 30 ; Yeopim, 6 people. 



WINTAW 



Unless this tribe is the Yenyohol in the list given by Francisco of 

 Chicora in 1521, it enters history first after the founding of South 



