http://www.dickshovel.com/coree.html My grandfather, Daniel Floyd ("Taud") Pate, told me the Coree were the "worst of the bad Indians." They were originally Bertie County Indians, according to Pate family tradition, lords of Currytuck and the Chowan Valley, before being driven southward by the Iroquoian Tuscarora. The Keyauwee are identified with the Coree and Nynee as tribes against which Gov. Daniel declared war as early as 1703, according to colonial Records of the North Carolina Executive Council. http://www.dickshovel.com/coreepro.html It was enlightening for me to recently learn from Billie Faye Evans (from South Carolina Baptist records in the Crozier Manuscript, Furman University) that Charles Pate, Jr., was born 1 May 1772 in Bertie County, N.C., that he married a Sarah Henderson, and in 1772 they had children Sarah, Charles, Mary, Rebecca, Ann, Shadrack (who settled in Wayne County), and Joel. This information indicates connection to a prominent and ambitious and successful line of land brigands, and proves my line back to Thoroughgood Pate of the Rappahannock Valley and Roquis Pocosin on Cashie River, sometimes of Edenton, where he last married Sarah Chevin, sister of Deputy Lord Proprietor Nathaniel Chevin and mother of William Pate, ward of Nathaniel Chevin. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Basses are documented as being French Huguenots, who masqueraded as Italians, bribed the King of England, and ended up as Nansemond Indians. Black Creek, is just north of Patetown. Richard Bass, who with the Jernigans and others founded the town of Waynesboro, came from there. Thus began a basic political, social and genealogical split in Wayne County, that was manifested in the depredations of the Barna Jernigan Gang, made up of Tories and Indians, which continues to our time. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Faye Hays