My 5th Great Grandmother
Family story is that JOHN STRICKLAND JR.s wife APPA and her father said their Native American ancestors fled in the early 1700s from NE NC, with their families and a large number of tribal members. They traveled southward, and along the coast of NC , because of many "troubles" (1711-1715 Tuscarora War) they had with settlers in NE NC (old/original Currituck and Albemarle County areas, i.e., NC lands that at the time were considered part of the English Province of Virginia ). This group of Indians later moved westward into the interior of NC, and finally settled with other Indians along "Drowning Creek" (Lumber River) and to the area we now know as Roberson Co., NC). The old tribal members said that at first they were treated as outsiders by the other Cherokee and Cheraw Indians, because they "spoke differently and had mixed Portuguese and blue-eyed, fair-haired English families in their group. They said "it took some time, and a war with the enemy SC "Eeyswah" (Iswa-Catawbas) before they were fully accepted and became one with the Cheraws."
Appa, wife of JOHN STRICKLAND JR. (1749-1836) passed on to her family that the elders in her group said they called themselves "Coreetuk" -- later shortened to "Corees" (i.e., which could be the "Cores" of VA/NC. The tribal name probably meant "Currituck," where tribal elders said that this was also the name of their tribal lands "on the ocean" in the SE corner of VA and NE corner of NC.
Family story is that JOHN STRICKLAND JR.s wife APPA and her father said their Native American ancestors fled in the early 1700s from NE NC, with their families and a large number of tribal members. They traveled southward, and along the coast of NC , because of many "troubles" (1711-1715 Tuscarora War) they had with settlers in NE NC (old/original Currituck and Albemarle County areas, i.e., NC lands that at the time were considered part of the English Province of Virginia ). This group of Indians later moved westward into the interior of NC, and finally settled with other Indians along "Drowning Creek" (Lumber River) and to the area we now know as Roberson Co., NC). The old tribal members said that at first they were treated as outsiders by the other Cherokee and Cheraw Indians, because they "spoke differently and had mixed Portuguese and blue-eyed, fair-haired English families in their group. They said "it took some time, and a war with the enemy SC "Eeyswah" (Iswa-Catawbas) before they were fully accepted and became one with the Cheraws."
Appa, wife of JOHN STRICKLAND JR. (1749-1836) passed on to her family that the elders in her group said they called themselves "Coreetuk" -- later shortened to "Corees" (i.e., which could be the "Cores" of VA/NC. The tribal name probably meant "Currituck," where tribal elders said that this was also the name of their tribal lands "on the ocean" in the SE corner of VA and NE corner of NC.
My 5th Great Grandmother
Family story is that JOHN STRICKLAND JR.s wife APPA and her father said their Native American ancestors fled in the early 1700s from NE NC, with their families and a large number of tribal members. They traveled southward, and along the coast of NC , because of many "troubles" (1711-1715 Tuscarora War) they had with settlers in NE NC (old/original Currituck and Albemarle County areas, i.e., NC lands that at the time were considered part of the English Province of Virginia ). This group of Indians later moved westward into the interior of NC, and finally settled with other Indians along "Drowning Creek" (Lumber River) and to the area we now know as Roberson Co., NC). The old tribal members said that at first they were treated as outsiders by the other Cherokee and Cheraw Indians, because they "spoke differently and had mixed Portuguese and blue-eyed, fair-haired English families in their group. They said "it took some time, and a war with the enemy SC "Eeyswah" (Iswa-Catawbas) before they were fully accepted and became one with the Cheraws."
Appa, wife of JOHN STRICKLAND JR. (1749-1836) passed on to her family that the elders in her group said they called themselves "Coreetuk" -- later shortened to "Corees" (i.e., which could be the "Cores" of VA/NC. The tribal name probably meant "Currituck," where tribal elders said that this was also the name of their tribal lands "on the ocean" in the SE corner of VA and NE corner of NC.
Family story is that JOHN STRICKLAND JR.s wife APPA and her father said their Native American ancestors fled in the early 1700s from NE NC, with their families and a large number of tribal members. They traveled southward, and along the coast of NC , because of many "troubles" (1711-1715 Tuscarora War) they had with settlers in NE NC (old/original Currituck and Albemarle County areas, i.e., NC lands that at the time were considered part of the English Province of Virginia ). This group of Indians later moved westward into the interior of NC, and finally settled with other Indians along "Drowning Creek" (Lumber River) and to the area we now know as Roberson Co., NC). The old tribal members said that at first they were treated as outsiders by the other Cherokee and Cheraw Indians, because they "spoke differently and had mixed Portuguese and blue-eyed, fair-haired English families in their group. They said "it took some time, and a war with the enemy SC "Eeyswah" (Iswa-Catawbas) before they were fully accepted and became one with the Cheraws."
Appa, wife of JOHN STRICKLAND JR. (1749-1836) passed on to her family that the elders in her group said they called themselves "Coreetuk" -- later shortened to "Corees" (i.e., which could be the "Cores" of VA/NC. The tribal name probably meant "Currituck," where tribal elders said that this was also the name of their tribal lands "on the ocean" in the SE corner of VA and NE corner of NC.
