Frontier Scouting and Indian Wars Papers, FIW

[Item name], Frontier Scouting and Indian Wars Papers, Military Collection, State Archives of North Carolina, Raleigh, N.C.

The Frontier Scouting and Indian Wars Papers contains a small selection of original archival materials documenting North Carolina and its citizens' roles in the French and Indian War (1754-1763), as well as various local citizens expeditions against various American Indian tribes in the state from 1754 to 1777. There are lists of frontier scouts, and names of individuals who participated in various expeditions against the Cherokee Indians during the period encompassed by what is referred to as the Cherokee War of 1776. This was part of a series of wars between bands of the Cherokee Indians and American colonists through the 1790s.

The Frontier Scouting and Indian Wars Papers is a records group within the Military Collection at the State Archives of North Carolina. The materials in the collection were collected by the North Carolina Historical Commission and the State Archives of North Carolina (which formed out of the Historical Commission) after the Commission was formed in 1903. The origins of some of the documents is unknown, as they came in during the early days of what became the Archives. This records group was formed the State Archives sometime between the 1920s and the 1960s, from scattered records loosely connected by date and fact that it involved combat against American Indian tribes and bands in North Carolina before the American Revolution. The collection is arranged in 1 slim archival box.

The collection is composed of the following items:

Box 1

1754: Indian Attack on Buffalo Creek Settlement (Rowan County); 1758: Dr. Andrew Scott for treating soldiers; 1759: List of men at Fort More; 1759: Rolls of scout companies; Accounts for Scouting the frontier; 1760: Rolls of scout companies; Accounts for Scouting the frontier; 1760: Expedition against the Cherokee Indians; 1764: Claim for bounty on Indian scalps; 1771: Expedition against the Cherokee Indians; 1776: March against the hostile Indians; 1777: Depositions on Indian attacks near Long Island, Holsten R.; and 1777: Pay rolls of militia companies protecting Fincastle County, Virginia, against the Cherokee Indians.