…They say that their traditions say that
the people we call the Croatan Indians
(though they do not recognize that
name as that of a tribe, but only a
village, and that they were Tuscaroras),
were always friendly to the whites; and
finding them destitute and despairing of
ever receiving aid from England,
persuaded them to leave the Island, and
go to the mainland.…They gradually
drifted away from their original seats,
and at length settled in Robeson, about
the center of the county…
the people we call the Croatan Indians
(though they do not recognize that
name as that of a tribe, but only a
village, and that they were Tuscaroras),
were always friendly to the whites; and
finding them destitute and despairing of
ever receiving aid from England,
persuaded them to leave the Island, and
go to the mainland.…They gradually
drifted away from their original seats,
and at length settled in Robeson, about
the center of the county…
