This is a message posted at the Tuscaroras.com discussion forum by Teresa Morris on February 26, 1998. ~note~ "Maverick" is my penname on the forum.

May 1713 with all h_ __ break out at Ft. Neoheroka a lot of bloodshed was spilled on NC soil. King Tom Blunt's followers became manipulated by the whites and the hostiles were homeless....wandering about. Initially the hostiles formed small bands and scattered into the woodsland/pocosins/swamplands where mosquitoes were so big you could saddle them just to survive. They lived off of whatever the Creator placed in their tracks. Many became so weak other hostile Indians moved in. But the strength of these people was carrying ancestral fires never to be extinguished..forever they will burn and serve as reminders. Opportunity presented itself and those rose up and came togther in tribal strength. Some "talked" into believing they should leave NC, fled to the Virginia frontier. Some proceeded on to join their Iroquoian relations. Bottom line....NOT ALL MOVED from NC. And just because others migrated to Virginia, Pennsylvania, did not cause them to become extinct.

Some Tuscarora lived in the Valley of Virginia. A village was located on the Tuscarora Creek also known as present Berkley County, West Virginia, Martinsburg. Other Tuscarora settled in central Pennsylvania. There were paths known to be traditional paths for the Tuscarora to travel back and forth from the North to the South. Some built their lodges/cabins along a river called the Juanita River around 1762. Others lived in Schuylkill County near Tamaqua and others in Wyoming County. This is known as Wilkes-Barre. Others lived among the Mohawks, Shawnese at Oquaga. Windsor Broome County, NY. Others lived near Oneida Lake 1736. Some migrated westward into the Genesee Valley and the Niagara countryside.

Many of the Tuscaroras were said to have lost their "national identity" during this moving about. Fact is: They remained TUSCARORA.