. History of Mecklenburg County and the city of Charlotte : from 1740 to 1903. e work of mound builders. Mr. A. Nixon, ofLincolnton, N. C, has several ornaments like those usuallyfound in localities where these prehistoric peoples are knownto have lived. Mr. Nixon has several ornamented pipesand other interesting relics, collected near Hardin, N. C,and Iron Station, N. C, in the territory which lies betweenthe South Fork and the Catawba rivers. 3. Robert Campbell and Thomas Keasey were the twowhite men wounded at Fort Dobbs in February, 1760. Bothof these men were pensioned by the Colonial Ass
. History of Mecklenburg County and the city of Charlotte : from 1740 to 1903. e work of mound builders. Mr. A. Nixon, ofLincolnton, N. C, has several ornaments like those usuallyfound in localities where these prehistoric peoples are knownto have lived. Mr. Nixon has several ornamented pipesand other interesting relics, collected near Hardin, N. C,and Iron Station, N. C, in the territory which lies betweenthe South Fork and the Catawba rivers. 3. Robert Campbell and Thomas Keasey were the twowhite men wounded at Fort Dobbs in February, 1760. Bothof these men were pensioned by the Colonial Assembly,Campbell finally being sent back to England, the Assemblypaying his passage. 4. The Catawba Indians had, in 1755, two hundred andforty to three hundred warriors, with King Hagler at theirhead. In 1760, smallpox reduced the number of warriorsto sixty. Governor Dobbs says that besides the sixty war-riors, there were left after the smallpox epidemic ended,sixty old men and boys and a suitable number of these figures are reliable, it will be seen that the Catawba. NORTH CAROLINA CURRENCY, 1866. NOTES ON CHAPTER II. IOI tribe must have been reduced by disease, in 1760, by aboutfour-fifths its size in 1755. This also accounts for the factthat the Catawbas were not heard of as an Indian powerafter 1760, and may account, too, for some of their friendli-ness towards the whites after that date. 5. Governor Dobbs, writing to Governor Boone of SouthCarolina, July 6, 1762, says: Mr. Samuel Wily arrivedhere and informs me he had directions from Mr. Bull to runout lines of the lands alotted for the Catawba Nation, a tractfifteen miles square, commencing at the Southward from 12mile Creek to the Northward 15 miles from the East to West7 miles and a half on each side of Catawba River, pursuant,as he says, to an agreement made with the Catawba Nationabout a year ago between Mr. Atkins, agent for Indianaffairs, with King Hagler, and Hagler, with these Indianshave arrived here the s
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