As regards the Eastern NC Tuscarora Indians the following was included in biographical sketches of Governor's of NC who lived in Bertie Co., NC written by John E. Tyler II: "The uprising of CARY (The CARY Rebellion 1710-1711) and his followers was immediately followed by war, with the Tuscarora Indians and epidemics of yellow fever. Governor HYDE (Edward) fell victim to the fever and died September 8th, 1712. Pending the appointment of a successor by the Lord Proprietors, the North Carolina Council chose an acting governor. Thus it was that Col. Thomas POLLOCK was elected to the Governorship, four days after the death of Governor HYDE. POLLOCK proved to be a man of force and decision. The war with the Indians lasted well into his administration as governor. The Tuscarora tribe was a branch of the war like Iroquoian group. Lawson, our state’s first historian, estimated their warriors at 1200, located in some fifteen Indian towns in Eastern Carolina along the Roanoke, Pamlico and Nuese Rivers. Encroachment by the whites upon the lands adjacent to these rivers was the principal cause of the Tuscarora War. The population on the Bertie Peninsula and surrounding territory, however, did not suffer as severely as others, for the Tuscarora bands along the Roanoke River remained neutral. This was due to the friendship and influence of Governor Pollock with the Tuscarora chief, Thomas BLOUNT. As a result the morale of the people was restored to some extent when the colony was facing some of its darkest days." There are several stories about how "King Blount" of the Tuscaroras obtained his English name but none proven to my knowledge. There were prominent Blounts in Chowan and Bertie area at the time so its logical that he would have selected such a name. The English Blounts had ties to the POLLOCKS, WESTS, WHITMELLS and others we see in early BERTIE. Mike Daniel