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While searching for Cherokee towns in present Pickens County, SC I came across a former Cherokee town name of “Uwharrie” at present Pumpkin Town, Pickens County. It is said that the chief of the town was named Woolenoy and that Oolenoy Valley was named after him.
Uwharrie is, of course, a Keyauwee Indian town name and the name of their former home in present Guilford County, NC near the Cheraw or Saura tribe.
Could this point toward the absorption of the Keyauwee by the Cherokees?
Dan.
Dan,
Would you be able to share where you found this?
Do you (or does anyone) know if they are/were considered to be a Siouan people?
Is there any chance of them being among the people at Fort Christiana?
Of course I’m wondering if these people could have been called Blackfoot at any point along the way. In any regard with what you’ve found taking on the Cherokee ID by some Guilford Co. peoples seems a possibility?
My interest is the most likely source for my own Blackfoot /Cherokee ancestor is a Goldsberry and the person likely to be her father had a land grant in Guilford Co. after the Revolution which he held only a short time before relocating his family to Ohio. Thank you.
I think it more likely the Keyauwee have been mislabelled amonst the Cherokee, something that happened quite a bit in the 19th century, when the word Cherokee was used generically and ubiquitously. Good find, Dan. it would be great to delve into this deeper.
Wachinika; The website is http://www.angelfire.com/sc/pumpkintown/ and it is spelled with pumpkin and town joined together. Pumpkintown!
I was interested in how close to Richard Pearis’ settlement and trading post at present Greenville, SC the Cherokee towns were. It looks as though my ancestor, Gardner Green, might have settled just southeast of there (Rocky Creek of the Reedy River) at an undetermined time but was recorded there after the general settlement in 1784.
Apparently the closest Cherokee town was at the headwaters of Twelvemile Creek and was called Little or New Keowee. This is the present location of the town of Pickens in Pickens County, SC and about twenty miles away from Greenville.
Dan.
Thanks Linda! Here is good map of Pickens County, SC. http://www.sciway.net/maps/cnty/pickens.html
Dan.
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