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Ava, Hi everybody. Welcome to Erichoy History and Legends. I'm Caleb. And I'm Andrew. And what episode is this, Andrew? We've made it to 23 now. Okay. Welcome to episode 23, the Tuscarora War. Now, if you're just joining us for this

episode, I'd recommend, if you want to know about the Tuscarora, go back one episode to the

episode, Meet the Tuscar Aurora, in that we talk about a lot of the conflicts that are going on

between the colonists and the natives of the Carolinas and what is leading up to this war that we're

about to talk about. So to set things up where we're going today, there's one main man that we

need to talk about, and that's Christopher de Grafenreid. He is a Swiss nobleman who is using

the English crown to transport refugees to North Carolina to start a new colony called New Bern.

Now we mentioned Christopher de Graffnerid in our last episode and how he writes that he was kind of ripped off on this land that he buys

because he says he ended up paying for it three times. One time to the Lord's proprietor, one time to John Lawson,

and then another time to the Indians, because when, one time to John Lawson, and then another time to the Indians.

Because when he got there, there was already a Tuscarora tribe living on the land where he intended to settle his Protestant refugees.

So New Bern was founded right at the junction where the Trent and Neuse Rivers joined together on a peninsula, and these Neuse River Indians said,

uh, we're already here, man.

And DeGraffin Reed gives them some trade goods and they agree to resettle up the river.

Now you think things would be kind of tense there,

and DeGraffin Reed, after he gets his colony up and going,

they start building a

little town square and they start doling out land for plantations around the area. So he decides to

get together with King Taylor, who's the leader of this town. That's right. He realizes that they're

going to be neighbors and you really don't want a powerful Indian nation living a few miles away from

you unless you're on good terms with them. So he gets the idea, let's get together and do a bonfire celebration.

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