Martha Rippon of Edisto River Island

Same area as progenitors of Lumbee [www.lumbeetrie.com/timeline]

1703 Cheraws leave Danville, Va area for Cheraw, SC

1703-1737 Cheraws are documentd as living on the Pee Deee River in South Carolina. Coherie were living in this Edisto River area. Common cousin matches abound.

1715 Cheraws participate in Cofitachiqui Indian alliance in Yamassee War.

1725 Gierbert, Commissioner of Indian Trade for the Wineau Factory ppublishes a map in 1725 and identifies Indians of the Pee Dee, Waccamaw, and SCAVANO Indians who continue to live on their traditional lands along the border area of NC and SC and near its tributary Drowning Creek in Robeson Co, NC.

1733 Martha Rippon born

1737 Cheraws sell their land on the Great Pee Dee River in SC.

1753 Drowning Creek (now Lumbee River) is proclaimed a "frontier to the Indians" by Carolina Gov Rowan

1754 Indian Familes live on Lumbee River without deeds per Surveyor of Bladen Co.

1771 Cheraw Settlement on Lumbee River at Drowning Creek documents in the Southe Carolina Gazette.

1781 Battle of Drowning Creek.