The land forces were moved to the sup

" On the

port of the fleet.

2Qth of August," says Governor " I left them all Hunter, upon their march beyond Albany towards the lakes, completely armed, clothed, accoutred and victualled, to be followed next day by eight hundred Indians of the

Five Nations

and

their allies

from Albany."

How

march extended does not appear it was arrested by the disaster to the fleet, and became a successful and unmo far the

;

lested retreat.

The

of North Carolina, one of the southern not escape from the war so fortunately.

Tuscaroras,

tribes of Iroquois,

did

Resisting the encroachments of the proprietaries of Carolina,

who had assigned their lands to the German Palatines, they were almoy destroyed in their fort on the river Taw, on the lost eight hundred in prisoners, the allies of the English. The slaves to

26th of March, 1713, having

who were

sold as

largest portion of the survivors of this disaster,

"unwilling to submit and unable to contend," removed to the north, joined the confederated tribes of New York, and were accepted and established as the sixth nation, or

"

children," of the Iroquois*

They were located immediately west of, and in juxtaposition to,

Colonial History, v, 2771

promise to live peaceably among us, and

At a conference at Albany, Sept. 25,

since there is peace every where, we have

1714, the Five Nations, in their address to "We acquaint you that the Tuscarore Indians are come to shelter themselves among the Five Nations. They were of us and went from us long ago and are now returned, and