head of a small detachMbht of armed men, supported
by a large body of Cherokees, Greeks and
Oatabas,1 the deadly enemies of the Tuscaroras.
He killed, in various actions, thirty Tuscaroras,
and fifty of the sea-coast auxiliaries, and took
two hundred women and children of the latter
prisoners, and returned. The war thus> commenced
was continued, with various results* for
some few years. The aid of Virginia, as well as
South' Carolina, was invoked the' next yean;
The Tuscaroras also made vigorous exertions.
They -were well provided with arms and ammunition,
and despatched runners to the Senecas
for aid. Their auxiliaries, the Mattamuskeets,
Gorees, and others, killed or_made prisoners "the
next winter,' forty inhabitants of The island „of
Roan oke or Croatan. The Tuscaroras prepared
to maintain their power,.: by entrenching themselves
behind a picketed Work on the river Taw.
This work, called fort Naharuke,.stood on a plain
beside a creek, and consisted of a rampart of
earth, covering the whole ground .occupied, de-.
fended with palisades. To protect themselves
from artillery, they had dug within this wall,
square pits of earth, six feet deep; covered with
poles, and connected by a wall of earth. They
were well provided with corn and ammunition,
and had the means of standing a siege, had they
made a wise provision for water; To obtain this
necessary article, they refted on an artificial
ditch leading to the stream.
To this aboriginal fort CoL Moore of South
Carolina, drove them from the lower country
with 40 musketeers and 800 Indians, in the early
part of the winter oftkTIS,rafter having been detained
On his, march by a deep snow. He immediately
saw the mistake of the water trench,
and placed cannon to rake it. >He then fortified
the only passage or point of land, where the Indians
would be likely-to. escape, and began regular
approaches, to the work, which he, entered
OrRthe 26th- of .March, 1713; taking^OO Tuscaroras
prisoner^. It is not -said how many were
killed. Hevhad lost o f his army, during the
siege, 2^whit% and* 36 red men killed, and 29
.Of-the formey, and 5:0\of the,latter wounded.
The Cberefefees and their allies claimed-the prisoners,
who were tak©mft> the-south, and sold
as slaves, a part,* as wè are left to infer,, being
©ffered-vby the. southern Indians,-To appease the
spirit of retaliation for prior losses by them.
Jl^iisforpught the tribe to terms, and they en?
tered into preliminaries of peace, by which they
agreed to deliver up twenty -men; who were the
contrivers of the plot, and who took Lawson and
Graffenried,; to restore all prisoners, horses and
cattle, arms and other property; to treat and
pursue the MattamuSfceefs and their other allies*
%s enemies; end finally, to give two hostages
for the peaceable conduct of each óf their towns.
Huring the following summer, the chiqf, called
King Blount, brought in thirty scalps from
his miserably treated allies; “but tho, greater
part of the nation,” says the historian before