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The sale of what would be known as Yeopim land was an anglicized term for Weopeomoke land and the first group of granters living amongst the Weopeomoke were John DuRant (land claimant with Spainish West FL), John Barber (Land Claimant with Spanish West FL), John Hawkins (WV and KY lines galore) and George DuRant (Claims with Spain. All of those men were human traffic land speculators. They were filling up the port of Winya Bay to the Waccamaw and to Albermarle area with contention of Robert Hicks of the land next to King Blunt in Southern Tuscorora lands with native from all which directions. So the ones not imported in from ship were indentured til age 21 per Colonial law. The ones who were already there had a law change after 1690 when free black were enslaved like John Punch of 12 Years a Slave movie, when overnight, the laws changed. As more and more Europeans came in, they pushed out as many FPOC to Spain who could get there and many had land claims already. THIS set up Spain for a bit tii France took over because Spain wanted land trades in the Caribbean. Then Spain and France got out of the Indian treaties by trading land back and forth.
https://pilotonline.com/news/local/history/article_a5ea509a-762e-11...
"Surnames of whites in early Currituck and Pasquotank subsequently appeared in documents of the Chowanoke, Meherrin, Nansemond, and Tuscarora Tribes - Blunt, Hancock, Bennett, Redding, Smith, Beasley, etc.. Beginning with a time which corresponds to the dissolution of the Meherrin Reservation and the dispersal from the Tuscarora Indian Wood Reservation, these same surnames, plus Hiter, Tom, etc. began to appear once again in Camden (formerly Pasquotank), Currituck, and Norfolk County." ~~~~Ed Nickens, MD, FPOC on 6/29/18