From deep within the land of the Mandoag - a descendent of poor, long forgotten, English
settlers doth add more pollution upon the web.
Crossing the Eno River in modern times.
"Friendly faces everywhere - humble folks without temptation" 8^)
"Mandoag" does not seem to have referred to a specific Indian tribe or nation.
It seems to have been a Carolina Algonquian epithet for Iroquoian enemies to their west.
Anyway - to the very early European settlers the term meant "some really really ferocious Indians".
Lee Miller, in her book Roanoke - Solving the Mystery of
the Lost Colony presents a well researched theory that some of them were captured, passed down the
Great Indian Trading Path that passed through Hillsborough, and ended up scattered
all over our state including the copper mines of Randolph County and the Lumbee Tribe of Robeson County.
Another recent book on the subject which I found more interesting than informative is Marjorie Hudson's
Searching For Virginia Dare: A Fool's Errand.
