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178 { CHAPTER EIGHT } Aftermath For North Carolina, it had been a tough, costly victory. But a victory nonetheless. As Thomas Pollock saw it, the colony had survived in the face of extreme dangers. But now it was a new day and he saw a new North Carolina coming. “The fire of difference and division amongst the people being in a manner extinguished, most of our Indian enemies killed, taken, submitted or fled, so that there is but about forty or fifty enemies left that we can hear of. The Quakers, though very refractory and ungovernable in Mr. Glover’s and Mr. Hyde’s administration, yet since I have concerned, must needs acknowledge they have been as ready (especially in supplying provisions for the forces) as any others in the government.”1 While Pollock may have been overly optimistic about the unity among North Carolinians, he was correct in that the North Carolina that emerged from the Tuscarora War in February 1715 would be far different from the one that went into it back in September 1711. And so would the lives of the men who played such important roles in it. YDown in South Carolina, both Col. John “Tuscarora Jack” Barnwell and Col. James Moore Jr. returned as heroes. Capt. Maurice Moore, the brother of Col. Moore, liked the opportunities he saw in North Carolina and so remained there, planning to make it his home. In fact, while he and his brother were in North Carolina, both invested in real estate, with Capt. Moore purchasing three town lots in the newly built town of Beaufort on Core Sound, one waterfront lot and two back lots. Col. Moore purchased four waterfront lots. They paid £1 current money per lot.2 In a very short period of time, Maurice Moore was at home in North Carolina and diving headlong into North Carolina politics. But once again, war would interrupt the three men’s careers. Aftermath / 179 On Good Friday, April 15, 1715, a confederacy of Indians made a surprise attack on South Carolina. These included Yamasees, Guales, Apalachees, Savannahs, Cheraws, Catawbas, Waterees and most of the Siouan nations, Waccamaws, Cape Fears, and to the west the Lower Creeks, Yuchis, and Cherokees. All had been allies of South Carolina and many of their warriors had fought alongside Barnwell and Moore in North Carolina . Scores of South Carolina traders and officials then visiting Indian towns were killed instantly. Down near St. Helena and Port Royal where Barnwell lived, his old friends, the Yamasees, struck early that morning. A wounded soldier managed to swim to Barnwell’s Doctors Plantation and raise the alarm. Fortunately for Barnwell and other settlers nearby, a ship carrying contraband had been seized and was in port. Now four hundred settlers crowded onto the boat and so escaped the quickly advancing Yamasee army. The Port Royal settlement was destroyed. Other plantations across South Carolina were also hit, more settlers killed. And so began what was called the Yamasee War.3 Like the Tuscarora War, the Yamasee War was partially a result of the many abuses suffered by these Indians as the hands of South Carolina traders and settlers. The Indians had finally had enough and now struck back. But lessons the warriors had learned in the Tuscarora War now bore fruit. One thing they all had seen was that colonial forces were not going to accept any peace or abide by any treaty until their Indian enemies were broken and enslaved. There could never be a peace among equals as Carolinians were too invested in the Indian slave trade. But now, after the Tuscarora War, the supply of enemy Indians available for enslavement had dwindled dramatically. Since the turn of the eighteenth century, South Carolina slave traders and their Indian allies had destroyed and enslaved many of Spanish Florida’s mission Indians, pushed back the French-allied Indians of the American Southeast, and now the Tuscaroras, Cores, Bear River Indians, and others had been taken. Nevertheless, South Carolina’s thirst for Indian slaves remained unquenchable. The Yamasees and others realized it was only a matter of time before South Carolina would turn on them. Better to stand together as Indians, hit the colony now before it became any stronger, kill the traders, destroy the plantations, burn Charles Town, and put an end to the slave buyers. And by the end of that bad Good Friday, it looked as if their plan was working. South Carolina was on its heels and...

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