. Sketches of Pitt County, a brief history of the county, 1704-1910; illustrations and maps . INDIAN SKETCHES OF PITT COUNTY. 21 Hawks thought its Indiau name Torpoeo. It was oftenspelled Tail. How it became Tar is equally claim it a corruption of Taw or Tau. Hawkssays it is a corruption of the first syllabi^ of Torpoeo andshould be written and spelled Tor. That its meaning washealth is doubtful. At what time it became known as Tar istoo, unknown. At this time the Tuscaroras were the most numerous In-dians in Eastern Carolina. Their principal towns were onthe Big Content
. Sketches of Pitt County, a brief history of the county, 1704-1910; illustrations and maps . INDIAN SKETCHES OF PITT COUNTY. 21 Hawks thought its Indiau name Torpoeo. It was oftenspelled Tail. How it became Tar is equally claim it a corruption of Taw or Tau. Hawkssays it is a corruption of the first syllabi^ of Torpoeo andshould be written and spelled Tor. That its meaning washealth is doubtful. At what time it became known as Tar istoo, unknown. At this time the Tuscaroras were the most numerous In-dians in Eastern Carolina. Their principal towns were onthe Big Contentnea, and Pitt County was, in part, somewhattheir frontier. Those frontier Indians lived on such termsAvith the whites that in the bloody Tuscarora War of 1711,they remained friendly and gave some aid to the the whites felt the fury of the enraged Indians and near300 were massacred in a most cruel and brutal is tradition that the house of John Porter, at the head ofChocowinitv Bay, Avas the first attacked. In 1712, TomBlunt, a half breed and a minor chief and five other subor-dinate ch
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