THESE NATIVES WERE UNKNOWN. NO WORDS OF THE LANGUAGE OF THE CAPE FEAR INDIANS HAVE BEEN PRESERVED, BUT EARLY REFERENCES ASSOCIATED WITH THEM WITH THE EASTERN SIOUAN TRIBES. THEIR VILLAGE WAS ON CAPE FEAR RIVER. IT WAS NECOES, ABOUT 20 MILES FROM THE MOUTH OF CAPE FEAR. IN 1600 THEY HAD ABOUT 1000 FOLKS.
THEY WERE MET BY EARLY VOYAGERS. IN 1661 SOME SETTLED AND TOOK SOME CHILDREN AND SENT THEM TO INSTRUCT THEM ABOUT CIVILIZATION. IN 1663 THEY WERE ASKED TO BE TAKEN UNDER THE PROTECTION OF THE GOVERNOR. IT WAS GRANTED AND SHORTLY AFTER THIS THEY RESCUED 52 PASSENGERS FROM A WRECKED VESSEL WHO FORMED THE NUCLEUS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARRES. A FEW INDIANS WERE ACTIVE AS SCOUTS AND GUARDED THE REGION. AROUND PORT ROYAL. A FEW INDIANS ACCOMPANIED BARNWELL ON HIS TUSCARORAN EXPEDITION IN 1711! AFTER THE YAMSEE WAR THEY WERE REMOVED TO SOUTH CAROLINA NEAR CHARLESTON. IN THE LATTER PART OF THE 1700'S A SMALL GROUP LIVED IN PARISHES UNDER A CHIEF CALLED KING JOHN.
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