In 1722, the Tuscarora Indians from North Carolina joined the Iroquois Haudenosaunee Confederacy and formed the Six Nations. Historically, the Six Nations ancestral lands are the present day Canada, New York, North Carolina, eastern South Carolina, and Virginia. From 1763 through 1766, additional Tuscaroras broke off from the main body of the historic Tuscarora due to the settler abuse, and some migrated north to settle with other Haudenosaunee Longhouse People, while at the turn of the century another band of Tuscaroras went south into the Bladen-Robeson County area in North Carolina. This document is clear evidence which supports their direct tribal descendants remained in those same communities granted to their Tuscarora Chiefs in colonial times to the present day.
This historical original 1861-1877 Civil War Manuscript of the federal U.S. Army Adjutant General and Military Chief John (Jno.) C. Gorman, describes the origins of the Tuscarora Indian Tribe's migrations to Robeson and adjoining counties when it was called Bladen County in the colonial time period.
The U.S. Army Adjutant General John C. Gorman gives critical insight of the Tuscarora historical accounts and connects their Tuscarora leader, Henry Berry Lowry and the Lowry Gang, its activities, Sovereignty, injustices, efforts to capture the gang, and death to the Lumber (Drowning Creek) and Pee Dee Rivers in Robeson County, North Carolina.
The manuscript is part of a federal and state collection of the U.S. Federal Army Adjutant General and is in the federal jurisdiction of the U.S. War Department which provides the true historical accounts of the "Tuscaroras Indians in Bladen, Robeson, and adjoining counties" in North Carolina during the Civil War.
