quoted, “ unable to contend, and- unwilling to
submit, removed to the northward, and jollied
the Seneca, and other confederate tribes bn the
frontiers of New York.”: (ffliMiamstin) S Those
who remained, were to have - settled between the
Neuse and Taw rivers; but an Indian war having
broken but in the southern colonies in 171$,
only three months after the peace, with the Cb^
rees and their other former allies, the Tuscaro-
ras, now the remains of a broken down tribe,
feeble in numbers and power, obtained permission
to settle on the north Side of the Roanoke
river, on a reservation, where some of ih'efti were
living in 1803.
The whole number of Indians living in North
Carolina in 1708, estimating their fighting mqn,
were 1,608, of whom the Tuscatoras constituted
1,200, which would give them, on the ordinary
principle of estimating their popUlatiVd; -6,000
souls. Two thirds of the whole number of their
fighting men were captured at the takings of
fort Naharuke, in 4713. How many Were'killed
on other Occasions is not certainlwkho'Wn; but
it is probable that in this short war of but three
years’ duration, and owing to the desertion of
families, death by sickness, want, and other
casualties consequent dpon the surrender of
Naharuke, they sunk to almost immediate insignificance.
Those who fled to their kindred
in western New York, were never counted.
They were estimated, perhaps high, at 200 warriors,
in 1776. They were located, at first, immediately
west of, and in juxtaposition to, the
Oneidas; along with whom they are mentioned
as being secured in their rights, by the treaty of
Fort. Stanwix, in 1784. But in fact they had no
independent claim to territory, living merely as
guests, although the confederacy had admitted
them as an integral member, after their disastrous
flight from North Carolina, calling themselves
no longer the Five,* but the Six Nations.
The Senecas gW; them lands on the Niagara
ridge, after the American revolution; these were
subsequently secured to them in a reservation
made by the state, in the present bounds of Niagara
county. Here they have continued to
dwell, having added to their possessions, by an
early purchase from the Holland Land Company,
madewith the avails of the sale of their reservation
north of the Roanoke, in North Carolina.
But if the TpScaroras have erred in policy, and
sunk in numbers, with a rapidity and in a ratio
unequalled by any other member of the confederacy,
if we except the Onondagas and Cayugas,
they mny be said to have grown wise by experience.
Low as their present numbers are, they
hold an exalted rank among their brethren for
industry* temperance, and their general advance
m qrts, agriculture and morals.
I found, on making the enumeration, 283 persons
living in 53 families, of whom 151 were
males and 167 females. These families cultivated
the past year 2,080 acres of land, on which
they raised 4,897 bushels of wheat, 3,515 of corn,