FDI - Coree

The Coree were a sedentary hunter/farmer tribe closely related to the Tuscarora, with whom some finally confederated. They were located on the peninsula south of the Neuse River in Carteret and Craven Counties. They were destroyed by smallpox, a war with the Machapunga, and in war with Whites. Many later merged into the Machapunga.

Aboriginal Locations Subdivisions [(# of Villages)

NC (3)

Present Locations

Coree (a.k.a. Faircloth Indians), Atlantic claim ancestry, otherwise extinct as a culture though some descendants among the Tuscarora

Year	*History*

1585	Known to Raleigh colony
1670	Smallpox epidemic soon after this year
1696	Population greatly reduced in a war with Machapunga
1712	Took part in Tuscarora War against colonists; some remained with Tuscarora
1715	Place on a tract of land on Mattamuskeet Lake with the Machapunga where they remained until became extinct or absorbed into the neighboring culture

Year	Total NC Population	Source
1600	1,000	Mooney estimate
1700	100	NAHDB calculation
1709	90	Lawson estimate
1800	0	NAHDB calculation
1900	0	NAHDB calculation
2000	0	NAHDB calculation

Coree Sites:

1711: Tuscarora War http://tuscaroras.com/pages/history/1711_the_tuscarora_war.html

Algonkin Ethnohistory of the Carolina Sound http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~jmack/algonqin/mook3.htm

Among the Tuscarora: John Lawson Death http://www.learnnc.org/lp/pages/tuscarora-john-lawson-death

Beaufirt NC Hisotry http://beaufortnc.portal.acrosonic.com/Home/History/default.aspx

Coree http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coree

Coree? http://www.dickshovel.com/coreeal.html

Coree Are Not Extinct http://www.dickshovel.com/coreepro.html

Coree Indian Tribe http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/tribes/algonquian/coreehist.htm

Cultural Anthropology of Indian Villages http://www.lost-colony.com/cultural.html

Death of John Lawson http://ncmuseumofhistory.org/fko/NIE/TwistedTarHeelTales/Lawson.pdf

Iroquoian Language Family http://www.native-languages.org/famiro.htm

Tuscarora Indian War http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncbertie/tscnews.htm

Tuscarora Indian War http://www.usahistory.com/wars/tuscaror.htm

Tuscarora War http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/tuscarora.htm

Tuscarora War http://www.waywelivednc.com/before-1770/tuscarora-war.htm

Tuscarora War http://www.motherbedford.com/USMHWeb16.htm

White-De Bry Map of Virginia (1590) http://www.nps.gov/archive/fora/whitede.htm

*Ethnie:*	COREE (FAIRCLOTH INDIANS, CORANINE)
*Language:*	Powhatan [?]
*Family:*	Eastern Algonquian
*Stock:*	Algonquian
*Phylum:*	Algic
*Macro-Culture:*	Eastern Woodlands