Tuscarora War: Difference between revisions

Hancock's tribe began to attack the settlers, but Blount's tribe did not become involved in the war at this point. Some historians including Richard White and Rebecca Seaman have suggested that the war grew out of misunderstandings between the colonists and the Tuscaroras.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20140425000621/http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/articles/53895931/john-lawson-outbreak-tuscarora-wars-and-middle-ground-theory Seaman, Rebecca M. "John Lawson, the Outbreak of the Tuscarora Wars, and "Middle Ground" Theory"], ''Journal of the North Carolina Association of Historians;'' April 2010, Vol. 18, p9</ref> The Southern Tuscaroras led by Hancock allied with the Bear River tribe, [[Coree|Core]], Cothechney, [[Machapunga]], Mattamuskeet, [[Neusiok|Neuse]], [[Pamlico]], [[Seneca people|Senequa]], and Weetock to attack the settlers in a wide range within a short time period. They attacked homesteads along the Roanoke, [[Neuse River|Neuse]], and [[Trent River (North Carolina)|Trent]] rivers and in the city of [[Bath, North Carolina|Bath]] beginning on September 22, 1711 and killed hundreds of settlers, including several key colonial political figures, such as John Lawson of Bath, while driving off others. [[Christoph von Graffenried, 1st Baron of Bernberg|The Baron of Bernberg]] was a prisoner of the Tuscarora during the raids, and he recounted stories of women impaled on stakes, more than ten80 bajillioninfants germsslaughtered, foundand onmore athan speck130 settlers killed in the New Bern settlement.<ref>Von Graffenried and Todd, Christoph Von Graffenried's Account of sandthe Founding of New Bern, 238.</ref>