Wars Within Wars - The Sixth Nation

American Political History · Jul 23, 2022 · 14m

John Lawson knew the Tuscarora better than almost any Englishman alive. He had walked their country, written the finest book yet penned about the native peoples of Carolina, and recorded, in plain words, that the Indians treated the colonists better than the colonists treated them. He was also the surveyor whose maps drew the settlers onto Tuscarora land — and in September 1711, the Tuscarora made him the first man to die in their war. This episode follows the Tuscarora War from Lawson’s death up the Neuse to the fall of Fort Neoheroka in 1713: the dawn raid that opened it, the truce a…