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Historical Note : Peter Poythress - Indian Trader & InterpreterA Virginia Heritage by Eleanor Brown Merrill. Privately printed in 1968. Held by the National Genealogical Society Library. CS71.B88 1968 C.1 6417. Abstracted from pages 51 and 52: Of Peter we record some facts principally because of the light they throw upon the time in which he lived. In 1711 he was sent to negotiate with the Tuscarora Indians, who had refused to join with other tribes in a widespread massacre, and who were urged to sign a peace treaty with the English in Virginia. His name appears in William Byrd's Secret Diary through a number of years, and it is surprising to see how much thought Byrd gave to food, in spite of what must have been a rather uninteresting diet! We read in his diary: |
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