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Just thought I’d add a thread just about researching the Eno Indians.
Found the folloing —
http://www.orangecountymag.com/spotlight.html
UNC-Chapel Hill began excavation of the Wall Site in 1938, and digging began in earnest in 1980 when an auger test turned up some exciting finds. Initially thought to be a 16th-century Eno Indian village, the site actually is an Occaneechi village from the 17th century that was built on the remains of previous settlements on the banks of the Eno River.
Descendants of the Occaneechi Tribe of the Saponi Nation live in and around Hillsborough, and John “Blackfeather” Jeffries led the move to recreate the village not far from the original to preserve sacred ancestral grounds and also not to interfere with the digs. According to Jeffries, the replicated village always will be a work in progress, since the all-natural elements of wood, mud and grass must be maintained.
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vance
Vance,
I’m so glad you put this on here. It was one of those things I didn’t make time for the other day. I’ll have to check out the links and make a new file folder for Eno. I’m out of printer paper right now. (I like hard copies, cause then I can sit and read stuff while I’m watching scary movies!) Kerry is finally here! I told him a couple of places to get started. He is really excited to help. I’ll check back on this too and see what else comes up. Thank you again. Love & Light, Lynella.;)
Vance,
This is a P.S. Techteach has actually gotten me comparing our pictures (you & me) to see if we look alike! Maybe, what do you think?:cool:
Here is something in the last link above (http://www.ermp.tv) —
A few years later, several of the Saponi, along with several Nottoway, fought on the American side of the Revolution. After the Revolution, the Tribe began to move again. By the 1780’s, the Saponi had begun moving southwest into North Carolina to their old lands. Possibly, this migration was in response to increasing pressure then being asserted upon them by neighboring Whites in Virginia, then the most populous State. The Saponi community returned to the area near the Eno and Saxapahaw Rivers where they once lived, settling in the northwest section of Orange County that would later be split into Alamance County. This area eventually became known as the Texas Community or more plainly Little Texas. Surnames of Saponi families that previously appeared in the area near Fort Christianna appeared on Orange County, North Carolina censuses and tax listings by the 1780’s. Some of these families were Jeffries, Guys, Stewarts, Whitmores, and Watkins. These names are still common in the Indian community in Alamance, Caswell, and Orange Counties of North Carolina.
The earliest census for Orange County, which included Alamance County until 1849, listed Charles and Jesse Whitmore, as well as Jacob Jeffries, as heads of households. Within a few years the bulk of the Tribe had joined them. Oral history of the Texas community tells us that the Saponi language was still actively spoken in the community as late as the beginning of the American Civil War.
A few families moved further west to Indiana and Ohio, following the Quakers. These families formed a small Indian community near Xenia, Ohio identified at various times as Catawba. Several families from the Orange County community moved in the 1820’s to what became Macon County, North Carolina. While there, they became the subject of an 1897 United States Senate Document that identified them as Catawba Indians.
The majority of the Saponi remained in the Texas community, forming an independent Indian settlement based on small-scale farming. Churches such as Martin’s Chapel and Jeffries Cross provided religious and social structure for the community. Schools like the Martin’s School tended to the educational needs of youth. Community activities such as church revivals, family reunions, and group labor parties served to keep the community members united. One of the elders of the community, Goetha Whitmore, remembered his grandfather speaking the old language and his father having to translate to him as a child. During the 1930’s, Clayton Jeffries and other community leaders made contact with the Bureau of Indian Affairs to ask for assistance with their school, and also contacted other local Indian groups for support.
The Eno-Occaneechi Indian Association was formed in 1984 with a Tribal Council to represent the Tribe at the local, State, and Federal levels to better serve the social and economic needs of the Indian people of the region. The name was amended to Occaneechi Band of the Saponi Nation to more appropriately represent the Tribal background of the Indian people of this area. Historical evidence clearly shows that the Occaneechi became part of the Saponi Nation, so the Tribal name was revised to more clearly reflect this historic fact. Currently the Occaneechi Tribal Office is located in Mebane, North Carolina which is the geographical center of the tribe’s community.
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Importance of the above quote.
i.] It mentions Saponi and other Virginia tribes helped the Americans in the Revolutionary War, which is similar to Lewis Jarvis statement about the Melungeons who were called the “friendly Indians who helped build Fort Blackmore”. This means friendly to Pioneers.
ii.] Author says some Eno-Occaneechi went to Indiana and Ohio. I’d like to know the origin and source of this information. Where is Xenia, Ohio? It says these Indians followed the Quakers. When did the Quakers go to Ohio and Indiana, and in what part of these states did they settle?
vance
I don’t know Lynella, you’re a whole lot prettier’n I am. I suppose maybe . . .
Is Kerry your brother? He’s more than welcome here. We can always use another voice . . .
Vance
The article you quoted above is a reprint from the Occaneechi Band of the Saponi website, http://www.occaneechi-saponi.org/tutelo-saponi/intro/lang_background.shtml
I have a feeling Lawrence Dunmore wrote it. Or maybe it was Forest.
http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~lrnoah/NCOrange/early.htm
http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~mwellis/book/chapter1.html
http://www.durham-nc.com/planners/group_tours/west_eno.php
http://www.ah.dcr.state.nc.us/sections/hp/colonial/Nchr/Subjects/rights.htm
http://www.ibiblio.org/dig/html/split/report247b.html
http://www.runningdeerslonghouse.com/index2.htm
http://www.runningdeerslonghouse.com/webdoc378.htm
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~monticue/early_history_orange_co_NC.htm
http://rla.unc.edu/Publications/pdf/ResRep3.pdf
http://www.ls.net/~newriver/va/eta.htm
I did a google search for “Eno Indians” and the above links came up. It’ll be a while before I’ll have time to search through them all. Maybe someone can help. 🙂 Some looked real good and others not so good.
vance
Originally posted by vance hawkins
ii.] Author says some Eno-Occaneechi went to Indiana and Ohio. I’d like to know the origin and source of this information. Where is Xenia, Ohio? It says these Indians followed the Quakers. When did the Quakers go to Ohio and Indiana, and in what part of these states did they settle?
vance
Vance,
Xenia is in Greene County, Ohio. It is about 15 miles southeast of Dayton. My JONES family is part of the group that left Virginia and went there, along with some of the GUY, JEFFRIES, CORDEL, and DAY families that their children married into. There were also STUDEVANT, CORN, HAITHCOCK, EVANS, PEARSON, WHITTINGTON, WOOTEN, STEWART, HARPER, etc. to name some more surnames that I have seen listed here in some other posts. As far as I can tell, these families went to Xenia between 1820’s to 1840’s. My JONESes arrived in Xenia sometime between 1838 – 1841. I didn’t know that they supposedly followed the Quakers there. The only thing that I remember reading was that they most likely left Virginia because of the “free negro laws”. Some of the families did move on to Whitley (near Fort Wayne) and Rush (near Indianapolis) Counties in Indiana. Thanks for the links. I will have to read through them.
Stacey
Vance,
This is agreat chunk of info. and all those links too! I’ll pick through them as I can and I’m sure Kerry will as well. Yeah, he’s my brother. He loves to do this kind of stuff. Thank you for the compliment. I am so excited to see all of this. It makes me feel like some headway is being made. Thank You.
Linda,
Thank you very much too!:) Dunmore? I’ll look again!:cool:
Stacey,
Thank you too! You just made things flow so well!;)
Love & Light, Lynella.
Thanks Stacey —
You mentioned the Day family. Someone was here last year looking into the Day family. They married into my Wood’s family. But this was at the southern tip of Indiana.
If those Day’s further north can be tied to those in Gibson County, Indiana, it would tie the two groups together. interesting . . .
and thanks
vance
Hmmmmmmm. Stacey put “Eno-Occaneechi went to Indiana and Ohio. Did I see a Evans in there? I hadn’t noticed that till now, but I’m pretty brain dead! Thanks you guys! Love & light, Lynella.
Vance,
🙂 Hi! I have a question, it’s probably a dumb question, but here goes. Back in the 1600’s and 1700’s were the Eno spelled Jno? Saw it a lot on a list of slave names and was just currious. Let me know. Love & Light, Lynella.
Vance,
😀 Well, you’ll have that! It makes perfect sense. I knew it was a perty’ dumb question!;) Thank you for replying so quickly. Love & Light, Lynella. P.s. It’s snowing here. What’s it doing your way?
vance hawkins wrote: http://www.enoriver.org/
http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~lrnoah/NCOrange/early.htm
http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~mwellis/book/chapter1.html
http://www.durham-nc.com/planners/group_tours/west_eno.php
http://www.ah.dcr.state.nc.us/sections/hp/colonial/Nchr/Subjects/rights.htm
http://www.ibiblio.org/dig/html/split/report247b.html
http://www.runningdeerslonghouse.com/index2.htm
http://www.runningdeerslonghouse.com/webdoc378.htm
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~monticue/early_history_orange_co_NC.htm
http://rla.unc.edu/Publications/pdf/ResRep3.pdf
http://www.ls.net/~newriver/va/eta.htm
I did a google search for “Eno Indians” and the above links came up. It’ll be a while before I’ll have time to search through them all. Maybe someone can help. 🙂 Some looked real good and others not so good.
vance
Some good links posted by Vance, however, a couple no longer work.
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