Category Archives: Machapunga

Hyde County, NC Indian Families in 1850

Posted on May 14, 2016 by Roberta Estes

A friend was looking through the Hyde County, NC, 1850 census and noticed something quite interesting. On page 4 (at Ancestry.com) of the Currituck district, one entire page (except one person) is shown with M, for mulatto, overwritten over something … Continue reading →

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History of Halifax Co., NC

Posted on May 24, 2014 by Roberta Estes

Halifax county was formed in 1758 from Edgecombe County which in turn was formed in 1741 from Bertie County which in turn was formed as Bertie Precinct in 1722 from the part of Chowan Precinct of Albemarle County lying west … Continue reading →

Posted in Chowan, Coree, Croatoan, Machapunga, Mattamuskeet, Meherrin, Pungos, Tuscarora, Yeopim | 4 Comments

Gov. Walker and the Bay River Indians

Posted on February 19, 2014 by Roberta Estes

North Carolina Historical and Genealogical Register Extracts http://archive.org/stream/northcarolinahi00hathgoog/northcarolinahi00hathgoog_djvu.txt Please note that this document has been scanned and optically read. This means that in places the old type may not have read or been interpreted correctly, causing anomalies in the print … Continue reading →

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Frank Speck’s Remnants of the Machapunga Indians

Posted on July 13, 2012 by Roberta Estes

Frank Speck, an anthropologist, visited Eastern North Carolina in 1916, hoping to discover some cultural remnant of the Indian tribes that once inhabited the entire coastal area. He was to be disappointed. He found no remnants of languages and little … Continue reading →

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Cape Fear, Machapunga, Coree, Tuscarora and Mattamuskeet Indians

Posted on June 12, 2012 by Roberta Estes

James Sprunt, born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1846, was an entrepreneurial cotton merchant, author, philanthropist and a major figure in Wilmington, North Carolina from the time of the Civil War until his death in 1924. Active in the N.C. Literary … Continue reading →