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Titre : Annual report of the Bureau of American ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian institution

Auteur : Bureau of American ethnology (Washington, D.C.). Auteur du texte

Éditeur : Government printing office (Washington)

Date d'édition : 1896

Contributeur : Powell, John Wesley (1834-1902). Directeur de publication

Notice du catalogue : http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37575968z

Notice du catalogue : https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37575968z/date

Type : texte

Type : publication en série imprimée

Langue : anglais

Format : Nombre total de vues : 40082

Description : 1896

Description : 1896 (N18,PART2)-1897.

Description : Note : Index.

Droits : Consultable en ligne

Droits : Public domain

Identifiant : ark:/12148/bpt6k276283

Source : Bibliothèque nationale de France

Conservation numérique : Bibliothèque nationale de France

Date de mise en ligne : 15/10/2007

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Yeardly. The only mention of this is in a letter by the younger Y eardly to John Ferrar, esq. The paragraphs referred to are as follows 1 In September last, a young man, a trader for beavers, being bonnd ont to thé adjacent parts to trade, by accident his sloop left him; and he, supposing she had been gone to Roanoke, hired a small boat, and, with one of his company left with him, came to crave my license to go to look after his sloop, and sought some relief of provisions of me; the which granting, lie set forth with three more in company, one being of my famUy, the others were my neighbors. They eutered in at Caratoke, ten leagues to thé sonthward of Cape Henry, and so vent to Rhoanoke Island; where, or near tliereabouts they found the gréât Commander of tlioae parts with his Indians a-hnnting, who reeelved them civilly, and showed them thé rnins of Sir WaJter Raleigh's fort, from whence 1 received a sure token of their beiug there. Immcdiately I dispatched away a bout with six hands, one being a carpenter, to bnild the King an English house, my promise, at hia coming first, being to comply in that matter. I sent .C200 sterling in trust to purchase and pay for what land they should like, thé which in little time they effected and pnrchased, and paid for three gréât rivers, and also all such others as they should like of, sontherly and in solemn manner took possession of thé conntry, in the name, and on the behalf of thé Commonwealth of England; and actual possession was soiemniy givcu to them by the great Commander, and ail the great men of the rest of the provinces, in delivering them a turf of thé earth with an arrow shot into it; and so the Indians totally left thé lands and rivers to ns, retiring to a new habitation, where our people built thé gréât Commander a fair house, thé which 1 am to furnish with English ntensils and chattels.

Although no boundaries are mentioned, the territory embraced must have been of considerable extent, as it is said they purchased and paid for three great rivers. and also such others as they shoold like of, sontherly.

The next purchase mentioned, and the earliest one of which a record has been preserved, was from thé chief of the Yeopim (Weopemeoc) Indians. This grant was made March 1, 1661, to George Durant for a tract of land then called Wecocomicke, lying on Perquimans river and Roanoke sound. Thé place is now known as Durantes Yeek." This, as given in the Colonial Records and purporting to be a copy of the record in Perquimans county, is as follows

Know AU men by these présents that I, Kiieacenen, King of Yeopim have for a valeia.ble consideration of satisfaction received with the consent of my people sold, and made over and to George Durant a Parcell of land lying' and beiug on Roneoke Sound and on a River called by thc name of Pcrquimuns which. Issneth oui of the North Side of the aforesaid Sound which Land at present bears thé name of Wecocomicke, begining at a marked Oak Tree, which divides this ]aud from the land I formily sold to Sami Pricklove and cxtcnding westerly up thé said Sound to a Point or Turning of the aforesaid Perqnimans River and so np the eastward side of thé said River to a creek called by the name ofAvroseake, to-wit;–Ail thé Land betwixt the aforesaid Bounds of Samuel Pricklove and thé said Creek; thence to the Head thereof. And thence through the \Voods to the first Honnds.~

To have and to hold thé quiet possession of thé same to him and lus heirs forever, with AU Rights and Priviledges thereunto forever from me or any Person or Persons whatsoever. As witness my hand this first day of March 1661.~

'ColouialEecords,voi.l,p.lS. ~IMd.,p.]9. ~Ibid.,p.]9.