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27 March 1713, (l). 

 Sr. 



Ye 20th of this instant I attach No-ho-ro-ca fort on C 

 Creek & ye 23d In ye morning took itt, with ye loss of 22 

 Whit men and 24 more wond'd-35 Indians killed & 58 won'd — 

 Most of ye Damage wee Reced after wee Gott ye fort to ye Ground, 

 which we did in }^e first 3 hours — I have little else to advise yr 

 Honrs but that ye Qu't of ye enemies Destroyed is as follows — 

 Prisoners 392, Scolps 192, out of ye sd: fort— & att least 200 

 killed and Burnt In ye fort & 166 kill'd & taken out of ye fort on 

 ye Scout, which is all; but My Servis to Capt: Jones, from your 



Honre obdt Servt 



Ja: Moore. 



This war and its results split the Tuscaroras into two parties. 

 A small portion, led by "King Tom Blunt" made peace with the 

 colonists, (2). A larger party was dissatisfied with this action 

 and applied through ambassadors for admission to the Iroquois 

 Confederacy. The Iroquois in council heard the ambassadors 

 and after the usual deliberation the Senecas adopted the Tuscarora 

 Nation and thus formally admitted them into the League. The 

 Oneidas granted them a parcel of land lying between the Unadilla 

 and Chenango Rivers, and the council invited the new members 

 to live there. Many of the Tuscaroras accepted the invitation 

 and removed to their new home, arriving there in 1714 or 1715. 

 Xot until 1722, however, did they enjoy in full the privileges of 

 membership in the League. In that year their sachems assem- 

 bled with others of the original Five Nations at a council at 

 Albany. In 1766 certain chiefs of the Tuscaroras so prevailed 

 upon the remnant in Carolina that 160 joined their kindred in 

 New York; but a few remained, and it was not until 1802 that 

 their descendants joined their kin at the village on the Niagara 

 Frontier. 



For two generations the Tuscaroras lived in comparative 

 peace on their land on the Unadilla River. Occasional parties of 

 their warriors took part in the constant warfare then going on in 

 the South. In 1736 a French enumerator reported that they had 

 250 men in a village near the Onondagas. 



i. In Colonial Records of North Carolina, from Calendar of Va. State 

 Papers. Vol. i, P. 165. 



2. Colonial Records of North Carolina, Vol. 1. P. 816, 979. 



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