The Enmeshment of Five Worlds, 1710-1713: The Making of New Bern in Southern Iroquoia
On September 29, 1710, a hundred and three people - among them their leader Christoph von Graffenried and his son Christoph jr. - arrived at a river the Tuscarora called Gow-ta-no, meaning "pine water." 1 When in 15 84 reconnoitering the coast between what his people named Cape Fear and Ca...
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2009
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| Online Access: | https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/sahs_review/vol45/iss3/3 https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/context/sahs_review/article/1491/viewcontent/01_The_Enmeshment_of_Five_Worlds.pdf |
| Summary: | On September 29, 1710, a hundred and three people - among them their leader Christoph von Graffenried and his son Christoph jr. - arrived at a river the Tuscarora called Gow-ta-no, meaning "pine water." 1 When in 15 84 reconnoitering the coast between what his people named Cape Fear and Cape Lookout, the English captain Arthur Barlowe (?-?) called it Neus River, possibly derived from the name of the Neusiok people living at its mouth,.2 The newcomers were from Canton Bern, a leading member state of the Swiss Confederacy, and they intended to settle in a region located on the North Atlantic coast of the Wes tern Hemisphere that the English named Carolina. 3 Since the 1660s the latter strove to wrest the area from the indigenous peoples of Iroquoian and Algonquian origin as well as from Spanish-claimed jurisdiction and from designs of the French who in the 1680s became ensconced across the mountains on the Mississippi and intended to expand eastward. |
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