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266:. John Mackey and Long Tom served as his advisors. His son Charles Squires followed him as a leader; however, his influence declined from 1752 to 1760. A deed to the Mattamuskeet reservation was signed by six Machapunga men in 1761. Even before 1727, Machapunga residents began selling their land until 1761, which the land had all been sold. 203:
believed that the historical Machapunga and other Algonquian tribes in North Carolina had probably been earlier connected to the larger population based in coastal Virginia. He believed the tribes in North Carolina were part of an early and large Algonquian migration south after European contact. He
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children and two African-American children. Roanoke and Hatteras people moved into the area. Stewart wrote that he had baptized seven "Attamuskeet, Hatteras, and Roanoke" adults and children. In 1763, he baptized 21 more
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Scattered Machapunga families still resided in North Carolina in 1761. Then missionary Rev. Alexander Stewart founded a school for eight
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In 1700 and 1701, the Machapunga maintained a village named Mattamuskeet. It held 30 warriors and was likely located on the shore of
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against the colonists. By 1715, the English colonists assigned a tract of land on Mattamuskeet Lake to the surviving Machapunga and
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noted the presence of Algonquian-speaking tribes on the Northeast coast and in eastern and central Canada.
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By 1701, the Machapunga consolidated into a single village named Mattamuskeet. In 1701, English explorer
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Manteo's World: World Native American Life in Carolina's Sound Country Before and After the Lost Colony
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From 1718 to 1746, John Squires emerged as a leader on the tract, or Mattamuskeet
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18 (1916): pp. 271–276, Carolina Algonkian Project, Rootsweb, permission by
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The Machapunga ultimately became extinct as a tribe in the 18th century.
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Frank G. Speck, "REMNANTS OF THE MACHAPUNGA INDIANS OF NORTH CAROLINA"
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Machpunga is also the name of an early 16th-century village on the
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estimated in 1600 there were 1,200 Machapunga and related tribes.
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from coastal northeastern North Carolina. They were part of the
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meant "bad dust" or "much dirt" in their Algonquian language.
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Morphology and Mechanism of the Insect Thorax, Vol. 80
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Index

North Carolina
Carolina Algonquian language
Indigenous religion
Secotan
Algonquian language
Native American tribe
Secotan
Powhatan Confederacy
Virginia
Potomac River
Powhatan Confederacy
Northampton County, Virginia
John Reed Swanton
Carolina Algonquian language
Hyde County, North Carolina
Beaufort, North Carolina
Mattamuskeet Lake
Hyde County
ethnographer
Frank Speck
Roanoke Island
Secotan
James Mooney
John Lawson
Tuscarora War
Coree
Tuscaroras
reservation
Native
Native people

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