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Introduction
Introduction This is my FINAL introduction. I gave one permission to submit this book to Kindle e-book Amazon since I got so frustrated...
Vance Hawkins
Jul 13, 20228 min read
Cofitachiqui--Yesah/Esaw--Catawba--Surviving Bands--Melungeon--Western Catawba Indian Association
Appendix 1 Thomas Jefferson’s Excavation of a Monacan Mound https://www.monticello.org/site/research-and-collections/jeffersons-excavatio...
Vance Hawkins
Jul 11, 202212 min read
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Chapter 14. Congressional Document This document says it all, really. (291) (292). In this document, we see a lot about why the attempts...
Vance Hawkins
Jul 11, 202234 min read
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Chapter 13: The Sun Rises in the East, and Sets in the West Pockets in the East -- Indian Communities East of the Mississippi, 1948; per...
Vance Hawkins
Jul 11, 202235 min read
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Chapter 12; Identity Crisis Origin of the word 'Melungeon'. There’s a lot of noise and confusion out there about the origins of the...
Vance Hawkins
Jul 11, 202223 min read
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Chapter 11; The Melungeons, once again Lewis Jarvis Article Most Melungeon researchers know about the Lewis Jarvis writing. About 1903...
Vance Hawkins
Jul 11, 202222 min read
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Chapter 10: The Revolutionary War Lord Dunsmore's War Lord Dunsmore’s War broke out shortly after the New River Indians were said to be...
Vance Hawkins
Jul 11, 202212 min read
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Chapter 9: Some of the Saponi Later Become the Melungeons From Saponi to Melungeon, Part 1 This section will cover the movements of these...
Vance Hawkins
Jul 11, 202219 min read
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Chapter 8 – The Saponi I have gone over one band of the Catawba who separated from the others. Another, the Saponi, did the same....
Vance Hawkins
Jul 11, 202240 min read
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Chapter 7 – The Cheraw, The Pedee, and Small Pox Since there is more written about this tribe or band of the Catawba than many, I will...
Vance Hawkins
Jul 11, 202221 min read
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Chapter 6 – King Haiglar and the French and Indian War 1754-1763 King Haigler A new leader arose amongst the Catawba, a man who gave them...
Vance Hawkins
Jul 10, 202248 min read
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Chapter 5 -- The Tuscarora Wars, the Yamasee War, and the War of Jenkins Ear It was after the Tuscarora and Yamassee Wars that the word...
Vance Hawkins
Jul 10, 202226 min read
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Chapter 4 – Indian Slavery South Carolina The Indian Slave Trade by Alan Gallay Here are a few excerpts about Indian slavery from “The...
Vance Hawkins
Jul 10, 202217 min read
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Chapter 3 – Indian Slavery in Virginia It is well known that many American Indians were stolen and enslaved. But the slave dealers didn’t...
Vance Hawkins
Jul 10, 202221 min read
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Chapter 2 – English Explorers Abraham Wood Abraham Wood was one of the earliest and least known of the Virginia Explorers who travelled...
Vance Hawkins
Jul 10, 202227 min read
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Chapter 1 – Spanish Explorers One of the most interesting things about the history of the Iswa/Yesaw/Esaw peoples of the Carolinas and...
Vance Hawkins
Jul 10, 202214 min read
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