Maria Moore, OC and Machapunga

Born at Hogg's Island. That is where the Machupungo Berry's were listed as raising pigs on the part owned by John Floyd, Trader at Ft Henry. So, she is not "Cheapoke" name since she did not go there to live on the Lower Chippokes creek at the bottom of the Nansemond land area and in what had been Wahunseneca's favorite of his many residences until later and it is now called Coreopeake, NC. The Machapunga Berry whose former island area in the outer banks was taken over and the Machapunga were moved to Hogg Island in Jamestown, which was owned by Trader Floyd of Ft Henry and the only British trader of that time and place allowed to have a license to the Appamatux "Countrie". Cheapoke's parents were John Harris, of Northhampton Co, Va and Little (Berry) Harris /Machapunga. who were on the Northumberland Census as FPOC and whose descendants are the proto Lumbar River natives and the self terming Old Cheraw, as well, a Bryant line of Chicasaw.

Cheepoake married William Bryant, Johnston Co, NC & St Tammany, LA. Together they had the following children: William Bryant, Mingo of Chicasaw 1741-45.

Cheepoake partnered with John Creek Moore Trader under John Rice Hooe 2, , Nottoway Cheraw. Together they had the following children: Priscilla Champion, Old Cheraw; Thomas Moore I / Old Cheraw; George Moore, of Isle of Wight; Elizabeth Parker, Old Cheraw; John Moore, I, of Bertie Co. NC.

The Ocaneechi language was the trade language of the Eastern Pan NA Trade. See the Archeaologist book entry where that statement is made in the media profile picture of this ancestor, from Mooney's Powhatan Confederacy., Past and Present.

In 1713, the confederated eastern Siouan Nations signed a Treaty of Peace with the Virginia Colonial government at Williamsburg. Among the different Nations represented were the Occaneechi, the Stuckanok (Shikori Cheraw), the Tottero (Tutelo), and the Saponi. At the invitation of Governor Spottswood of Virginia, these Indians settled a four-square-mile reservation encompassing the north and south side of the Meherrin River. On the north banks were the Nansemond and related Algonquin-speaking bands, on the south were the Siouan-speaking Tutelo, Saponi, Cheroenhaka, Eno, a small band of Catawba, and also an Iroquoian-speaking band of Tuscarora who had avoided the war with the Carolina settlers just 2 years earlier. Spottswood endorsed the construction of Fort Christanna where the Indian children had mandatory training in academics and Christianity. After the closing of the Fort Christanna School a few of the students followed headmaster Charles Griffin and enrolled at the Brafferton Indian School at William and Mary.[http://www.dominickerindians.org/ourhistorychapter1.htm]

By a 1761 report , these families had branched out and were counted as 20 Saponi warriors in the area of Granville County, NC and this corresponds to the "Mulatto, Mustee or Indian" taxation in Granville of such families as Anderson, Jeffries, Davis, Chavis, Going, Bass, Harris, Brewer, Bunch, Griffin, Pettiford, Evans, and others