York county, South Carolina.  They speak a different language from the Cherokees, but possessing a similarity of musical sounds.  They gave origin to the name of the noble river along whose banks, in its southern meanderings and its larger tributaries their lingering signs of former habitation are frequently visible, informing us here they once flourished in their simple avocations and enjoyments of the forest, and now excite our commiseration in their gradual decay and probable future extinction.

CONCLUSION.

In conclusion, the author would remark that other historic materials are on hand, in a partial state of preparation, which may hereafter be published.  The history of “liberty’s story” in the “Old North State,” with all its grand array of early patriotic developments, has never been fully presented to the world.  The field of research is still far from being exhausted, and it is hoped others—­descendants, it may be, of our illustrious forefathers, will prosecute the same line of investigation as herein attempted.

For the present, this series of sketches, with their unavoidable omissions and imperfections, craving indulgent criticism, will come to an end.

NOTES

[A:  Bancroft, I., p. 270.]

[B:  Bancroft.  Vol.  II., p. 158.]

[C:  Wheelers Sketches, I., p. 30.]

[D:  Wheeler’s Sketches, I., p. 49.]

[E:  Wheeler’s Sketches, I., p. 50.]

[F:  Foote’s Sketches of North Carolina, p. 83.]

[G:  General Moultrie, in sneaking of this engagement in his “Memoirs of the American Revolution,” says:  “When General Sumter began this attack he had not more than ten rounds of ball to a man; but before the action was over, he was amply supplied with arms and ammunition from the British and Tories that fell in the beginning.”]

[H:  “Virtue affords no exemption from death.”]

[I:  “Beautiful, although dead.”]

[J:  Tarleton’s Southern Campaigns, p. 94.]

[K:  Lossing’s “Pictorial Field Book of the Revolution,” vol.  II, p. 393.]