Totero Indian village

May Genealogy of Pike Co. Ky; John’s Creek is where Meredith Collins owned a strip of land along John’s Creek 10 miles wide and 30 miles long. This land was sold to Harrison Newsome.

Josephine Fields has preserved the tradition that the knoll overlooking Abbott Shoal, on which Samuel erected his house, was once the site of a Totero Indian village. According to Willard Rouse Jillson, the word “toteroy” signifies “river of sandbars.” He points out that on Evans’ Map of Virginia, published in 1755, the Big Sandy is labeled “Tottery or Big Sandy C.” We know that the Toteros were living on the river in 1699, for in that year they were mentioned in the correspondence of Richard Coote, the Earl of Bellomont and Governor of New York Colony. According to Henry Scalf, the tribe had a village near Hager Hill, one at Cliff, and one on Johns Creek near modern-day McCombs. When pioneers settled on Johns Creek around 1800, they found some old mud lodges of the Toteros still standing at a point below the mouth of the Brushy. Scalf continues:

http://www.rootsweb.com/~vawise/SilverMine/OtherExplorers.html

Daniel Boone s visit to the area by

approximately two decades.

Gist discovered an Indian village on

what is believed to be a tributary of the Pound

River in Wise Co., VA. These Indians lived in

log cabins, a fact that puzzled explorers

because it was a most unusual form of lodging

for the Nomadic customs of the area. The

Indians tribal symbol was the crane and

pictures of the bird were carved on the door

post and painted at various locations

throughout the camp. The chief was called

Chief Crane.

Any ideas what tribe this is…..?