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• Cheepoake Cheepoake Terry (Harris)
  Gender Female
  Birth 1710 Surry County, North Carolina, United States
  Death 1758 Surry County, North Carolina, United States
  Wife of William "Trapper" Terry
  Children: Stephen Terry; Esther Burris; William Terry, Jr.; Isabel Burris; Mary Terry and 2 others
  Added by Kent on March 12, 2009
  Managed by Teresa Lynn Skaggs, Kent, Gaye Jeanes and Bob Wood
  "A full blooded Cheraw Indian. Cheraw often written as Saraw or Saura in early VA & NC records. The Cheraw Indians ceasd to exist as a tribe around 1730 and were absorbed into the related Catawba and Cherokee Tribes, but most seem to have become the mixed-blood "Lumbee" of Robeson County Indians. 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."
  --  Cheepoake "Cheraw-Cherokee" Harris Terry, Geni, https://www.geni.com/people/Cheepoake-Cheraw-Cherokee-Harris-Terry/6000000045614461881?through=6000000014630414171
  
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  The Cheraw people, also known as the Saraw or Saura, were a Siouan-speaking tribe of indigenous people of the Southeastern Woodlands,[1] in the Piedmont area of North Carolina near the Sauratown Mountains, east of Pilot Mountain and north of the Yadkin River.  They lived in villages near the Catawba River.
  
  When the Council of Virginia offered tribes protection in 1732, the Cheraw asked to join the Saponis.  In 1738, a smallpox epidemic decimated both the Cheraw and the Catawba.  In 1755, the Cheraw were persuaded by South Carolina Governor James Glen to join the Waccamaw, Pedee, and Catawba, led by King Haigler.  The remnants of the tribes combined.  Some of the tribe may have moved north and founded the "Charraw Settlement" along Drowning Creek, (present-day Robeson County) North Carolina.[3] The tribe was mostly destroyed before the middle of the 18th century and European encroachment on their old territory.
  
  By 1754, racially mixed families lived along the Lumber River.  Cheraw women with the surname Grooms married into this group, which later became known as the Lumbee people.
  
  They were last noted as a distinct tribe among the Catawba in 1768.  During the Revolutionary War, they and the Catawba removed their families to the same areas near Danville, Virginia, where they had lived earlier.  Their warriors served the Patriot cause under General Thomas Sumter.
  
  In 1835, Cheraw descendants, who had been absorbed into the Catawba tribe, were classified as "free people of color" in local records.  Today the state-recognized Lumbee Indians of Robeson County, North Carolina, and the Sumter Band of Cheraw Indians of Sumter County, South Carolina, claim descent from the Cheraw."
  --  Cheraw, Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheraw
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  "The Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina is a state-recognized tribe of approximately 55,000 enrolled members, most of them living in Robeson and the adjacent counties in southeastern North Carolina. The Lumbee Tribe was recognized as a Native American tribe by the US Congress in 1956 under conditions that it agreed to at the time, which did not allow them to have benefits available to other federally recognized tribes.[3] According to the 2000 US Census report, 89% of the population of the town of Pembroke, North Carolina, identify as Lumbee; 40% of Robeson County's population identify as Lumbee."
  --  Lumbee, Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lumbee
  
  Rebecca Paddon, who also created memorials on Find a Grave for William Terry and his other wife Rachel, has included in Cheepoake's FAG profile a lot of good information about her people and her family with William.
  
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  Cheepoake Harris
  Birth 1710 North Carolina, USA
  Death unknown [abt 1858]
  
  Her parents are unknown. The 1710 birthdate is approximate.
  Cheepoake married William Terriy or Terry, a fur trader, in NC. Their known children were Isabell & Esther, & possibly Jasper, Miles & William. Isabell & Esther both married men surname Burris.
  Cheepoake was a member of the Cheraw tribe, often written as Saraw or Saura in early VA & NC records. SC records in 1738 list John Harris as the King of the Cheraw. He could have been a relative of Cheepoake Harris.
  William Terry & Cheepoake Harris have many descendants who have tried to get more information about them, but we have found nothing further.
  
  BRIEF CHERAW HISTORY
  16th and 17th century European explorers reported Saura villages on the Dan, Catawba and Yadkin rivers in NC.
  1710: Due to attacks by Iroquois from the north, the Saura moved southeast and joined the Keyauwee tribe.
  1715: About the time Cheepoake was born, John Barnwell of SC conducted a census of Indians in the region. The number of Saura is listed at 510.
  1733: Again they moved southward with the Keyauwee, and perhaps also the Eno, to the Peedee River in SC.
  1738: A smallpox epidemic decimated the Saura and Catawba tribes. The remnants of the two tribes combined.
  1743: The Saura are mentioned as with the Catawba but speaking their own distinct dialect
  1759: Forty-five "Charraws," some of whom were under their chief, "King Johnny," joined the English in the expedition against Ft. Duquesne (Pittsburgh, PA) in the French and Indian War.
  1761: A map from this year puts their village on the Peedee River below the Keyauwee village, near the boundary between the two Carolinas.
  1768: The Saura who lived with the Catawba, reduced by war and disease, numbered only 50 or 60
  1771: Some Saura apparently stayed in the north, because a newspaper of the time says a convicted felon was aprehended "near Drowning Creek, in the Charraw settlement". Drowning Creek is present-day Lumber River in NC.
  
  The Cheraw name is preserved today in the Sauratown Mountains of Stokes County, NC and the SC town of Cheraw.
  
  CHEEPOAKE/CHIPPOKES
  In Surry Co., VA on the James River is Chippokes Plantation Park. Capt. William Powell, a prominent colonial gentleman, received a grant for 550 acres of river frontage on Chippokes Creek in 1619. Named Chippokes Plantation, it and the bordering creek were named for an Indian chief who befriended the early English settlers. Under the ownership of Colonel Henry Bishop in 1646, the plantation was expanded to its present boundaries encompassing 1,403 acres.
  
  Spouse William Terry (1710 - 1792)
  Children Ester Terry Burris (1740 - 1830)
  
  Burial Unknown
  
  Created by Rebecca Paddon Feb 06, 2011
  --  Find A Grave Memorial #65291384, https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=65291384
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Sources

• 1. Geni Trees
• 2. Find a Grave Memorial Registry
• 3. Pennsylvania, Compiled Marriage Records, 1700-1821
• 4. Family Data Collection - Births