Cheepoake ‘Elizabeth’ Terry

Called Cheepoke.

• Not the same as the 1710 "Cheepoke" who married Indian Agent named Evans of Chief Hagler descendants. Elizabeth (Harris) Harris was born circa 1721 in Lower Cheapoke. Her parents were John Harris and Mary (Parker) Harris /Old Cheraw
• Elizabeth married Patriot William John Tirrey /Cheraw in 1739 in NC, United States. Together they had the following children: Isabel Burris; Stephen Terry; William Terry, Jr.; Ester Burris; Mary Terry; Susannah Brown; Jemima Boucher (Terry).
• Elizabeth did not marry Isaac C Sanders.
• She died in 1817.

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Old Cheraw signified the group on the Lower Chipokes and now Coreopeake, Va reserve land of what was the last residence of Wahunsenca. The Old Cheraw had Tazewell/Saura Town beginnings, ended up in the Susquahanna as hemp growers for Spain, had a Jarrett, Va presence, got land reserves, had to leave them for Granville NC and then got bounty lands on the Little PeDee. The continuous leadership of their line continued on to Indian Territory to Cheraw, MS and some went back to WV (like the 25th Gov of WV and first US Congressman to claim his native, Gov Floyd. From this core group to the Coropeake Reserve where Cheepoake married William Terriy or Terry, a fur trader, in NC., John Harrisand Mary (Parker) Harris /Old Cheraw Three Marriages: "Chief of Churrah" was the denotation on the Tabb Creek document while brother Thomas was servicng Col Eaton in the Colonial Wars and subsequently bounty lands were legislated on their behalf in the SC Legislature of 1767 with Capt Keaton, et. al. This community is reported on in the book mentioning their native community census in the book, Indians of North Carolina. That community included: Richard Parker; Patriot William John TIrrey /Southern Tuscororan on his mother's side and Isaac C Sanders. --Children By Terry: Mary, Stephen, Ester Burris,, Isabel Burris, William Jr., ,Josiah,Jasper, John, Miles B. "Devil Jett" Sr., Susanna, Mercy Harrison , Rachel Martin, Jemima Boucher; Child by Saunders - 1; Others of the 16 by Parker/

Cheepoake is the Lower Chippokes Creek area where the Old Cheraw Reservation was at Corapeake, mid left center or due west of The Great Dismal Swamp which is where the Cheraw Lands of 1540 Acres were granted to the Parker brothers 3. The Cheeopoake or Old Cheraw Parkers of Cheeopeake Creek to the west of The Great Dismal Swamp went to Old Cheraws District in SC after helping in the Cherokee Wars and located at Fishing Creek Community in what is now Granville, NC; and, later to Cheraw, MS and Cheraw, CO.

Cheraw Cheepoake was the first wife of fur tader William Terry of Botetourt County, Virginia. Only two of their children (Esther Terry and Miles "Devil Jett" Terry) had offspring. Cheepoake died when Miles was a baby, and William remarried.

References

• Find-a-Grave listing on Cheepoake Harris Terry http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=65291384 “ William Terry & Cheepoake Harris have many descendants who have tried to get more information about them, but we have found nothing further.”
• http://www.ourfamtree.org/browse.php/Cheepoake-Harris/p233944
• http://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/melungeon/21242/
• Prehistory to 1785 - http://hendersonheritage.com/prehistory-to-1785/ https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=65291384
• https://www.genealogy.com/ftm/p/e/t/Deborah-Peterman-Missouri/WEBSI...
• Tithable Proof: http://www.binnsgenealogy.com/FreeSample/CDR-000305/1732/1732Tith/1...