By 1810, only Robbins families were left at the Bennett’s Creek settlement. They seemed to have assimilated by 1822, having dispersed and married their more numerous white and black neighbors. Many Robbinses migrated to the free states of Ohio and Indiana after Nat Turner’s Slave Rebellion of 1831. Noah Robbins stayed, but he was classified as “colored” in the fear-born backlash from the failed 1831 rebellion and possibly to remove any residual treaty obligations. All colored, even if they were born free as Indians, were required to register and carry their “paper”, as follows, at all times. “State of North Carolina, Gates County August Court of Pleas, 1831… ..It was then and there ordered that the Clerk of said Court should [grant] to the said Noah Robbins a certificate certifying that he is a free man of colour and a native of said County and there in entitled to all rights and privileges of free persons of colour. Given under my hand and seal of office the 25th day of August Anno Dom 1831.” Some of the Bennetts moved further south in Anson County, North Carolina with Native American trading families. Their descendants can be found there; some are members of one of the several Pee Dee Indian tribes. One group of Robbinses remained intact. They first moved to Colerain in Bertie County, downriver on the Chowan. Many Robbins family descendants have since become members of the Meherrin tribe, based in Hertford County. Fletcher Freeman mentions that he has seen another record that indicates that at least some of the Chowan merged with the Meherrin. He feels this makes more sense because both were Algonquian speaking and both lived near each other on the Chowan river. Sadly with the end of these records, the Chowan disappear from the historical records, as Indians. We don’t have any known descendants of any of these Chowan surnames who have taken the Y DNA test. Looking through the projects, there are no Native haplogroups for any of these surnames except for one Beasley gentleman from Texas and Freeman from Texas, Tennessee and Virginia. There is no indication that any of these individuals are from the Chowan families. A Lost Colony DNA project member who does descend from the John Freeman family of Gates County is haplogroup R1b1b2, a European haplogroup, which is exactly what we would expect to see from a European man who married a Native woman. If they had daughters, and someone descends through all females from a daughter, indeed, we could test their mitochondrial DNA to see if Tabitha was a Native Chowan woman. Decline of the Coastal Tribes homepages.rootsweb.ancestry [Another service] There was at this meeting an Indian captain, who was very loving; and acknowledged it to be truth that was spoken. There was also one of the Indian priests, whom they called Pauwaw... Decline of the Coastal Tribes homepages.rootsweb.ancestry [Another service] There was at this meeting an Indian captain, who was very loving; and acknowledged it to be truth that was spoken. There was also one of the Indian priests, whom they called Pauwaw... Like · · Promote · Share
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