The Lost
Colony Research Group
Genealogy ~ DNA ~ Archaeology
Newsletter
July 2012
First
Instance of Word "Machepongo"
In a deposition
taken
in
1723
in Jamestown,
we
find
the
following:
Hamor stated
that
the
8 baskets
of corn,
each
containing
"21
Cans
at
Machepongo"
appears
to be part
of
the
corn
brought
in by
Savage
who
had purchased
them
for "truck" paid
by
Hamor. He
also mentioned
a thousand
"blew
beads"
on
his shallop.
Blunt - an Indian
Interpreter
A Study
of Virginia
Indians
and Jamestown:
The First
Century
http://www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/jame1/moretti-langholtz/chap10a.htm
(chapter
10
table link)
Abstracts: Acts
of Assembly
Abstracts:
Colonial
Papers
(Library
of Virginia)
Abstracts:
Correspondence
Abstracts:
County
Records
Surry
County:
Source
|
Name/
Party
|
Type
|
Date
|
Payment/
Action
|
Servants
|
Slaves
|
Details
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Haun 1991:3
4
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Thomas
Blunt & Nottoway
and Weyonok
e Indians
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Order
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4 July
1693
Southwark
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Act re
Indian
hogs. Thomas
Blunt, interpreter,
is to notify
these Indians
about
marking their
hogs.
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Act entitled
"An
Act concerning
Indians
Hoggs" made
"2
March
last:" 6 months
after
proclamation,
the court
is empowered
to assigne
a particular mark for the
towns
of the
Nottoways
and the Waynoke
Indians.
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Fort Branch on the Tuscarora
Indian Reservation
Are you
up for
a challenge?,
I asked
Baylus.
Actually,
this might
not
be
much
of
a challenge
for you.
The hubbub
related
to the
discovery
of
the
fort icon
on John
Whites
map
had
died
down
and
it had
nearly
been
forgotten
as yesterdays
news,
when
a discovery
in a
document
brought
it to
the
forefront
again.
I had been
transcribing
Tuscarora
deeds
in Bertie
County
and
guess what
I came
across?
A reference
to
"Fort Branch."
I'd
really
like to
know
where
this Fort
Branch is/was
in relation
to
the
Tuscarora
reservation
in relation
to John
Whites
map
with
the fort.
Maybe
it's a
different
fort....or
maybe
it's not.
So
I asked
Baylus,
Do
you
want
the info
to
work
with?
Is
this
tempting
to
you????
Of
course,
I knew
the
answer.
Heres the
deed
that
started
this
little
expedition:
Book
S, p
690/691
- Indians
to
Johnston
- June
15,
1803
Sacarusa
and
Longbeard
Chief of
the
Tuscarora
Nation
to
Samuel
W.
Johnston
- beginning
on
the
bridge
on the
Fort
Branch,
up
the
said
branch
to
the
mouth
of a
branch,
down
the branch
to a
maple near
Mrs. Pughs...containing
10
acres...to
pay
yearly
one
cent
on demand
on
Dec.
25th.
- leased
until
1916.
Signed Sacarusa
and
Longboard
(sealed,
no
Xs),
witnesses
William
W.
Johnston
and
Frances Pugh
X
Baylus says,
I'm finding
"Fort
Branch"
as a
reference
to
a waterway/creek
near
the town
of
Aulander
at the Bertie/Hertford
County
line,
about
25
miles
NW
from
the location
of the
fort
on
White's
map.
I've
included
a topo
map showing
it.
The reference
in the
deeds is similar
to the
reference
to
"Cow's Branch"
that's
often
mentioned
with
it and
I think
the
"branch"
parts
is just a reference
to
a branch
of
water.
I believe
this is a
creek, but
it may
refer to
an
earlier
fort
built
on
that
creek
or branch.
It's
just west
of
Ahoskie,
though
and
not
a place
that
Ralph
Lane
would
have
visited
(too far
inland).
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