GATCHET SAYS THIS CATAWBA WORD WATEREE MEANS "TO FLOAT ON WATER". THEY ARE IN THE SIOUAN LINGUISTIC STOCK. ACCORDING TO LEDERER THEY LIVED IN 1670 ON UPPER YADKIN RIVER IN NORTH CAROLINA. THEY WERE MENTIONED IN THE REPORT OF AN EXPEDITION FROM SANTA ELENAS IN1566. THEY LIVED INLAND TOWARD THE CHEROKEE FRONTIER. THE SETTLERS BUILT A FORT BUT THE WATERLEE WIPED THEM OUT. ON A MAP DATED 1715 THEIR VILLAGE IS PLACED ON THE WEST BANK OF WATERLEE RIVER.
THE YAMSEE WAR REDUCED THEIR POWER GREATLY IN 1715. DURING 1750 THEY LIVED WITH THE CATAWBA WHO THEY AGREED WITH. HOWEVER IN 1744 THEY SOLD LAND NEAR WATERLEE RIVERS TO A WHITE SELLER. IN 1960 THEY WERE ESTIMATED TO BE 1000 IN POPULATION. THEY WERE ONE OF THE MOST POWERFUL TRIBES OF CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA, AND THEIR NAME IS PRESERVED IN WATERLEE RIVER SOUTH CAROLINA
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