[vance hawkins]

http://www.webroots.org/library/usahist/homnrs01.html

While looking for “Redstone Old Fort” I cnme across this reference to the settlement of New River. It mentiones the iver was called Woods River early on but it didn’t last, and New river “stuck. Also it mentions many skirmishes between Indian people and settlers. It mentions “friendly Indians” who were Cherokee who fought with the settlers near the Ohio River in the French andf Indian Wars, some 40 years before the term “Melungeon” came into being and was used for “friendly Indians” near Chinche River.

I just skimmed it tho, it is a lot of reading.

vance

[Linda]

Thanks for the link. I think it’s interesting that the New River is the oldest river in America. Not sure how they determine that, but I guess it is typical of the naming the white folks did. Kind of like Columbus thinking he was in India.

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