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SC granted permanent domain to some Cusabo Indians their native island of Palawana

Source: Early History of the Creek Indians and Their Neighbors #121

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In 1712 was passed an act for "settling the Island called Palawana, upon the Cusaboe Indians now living in Granville County and upon their Posterity forever." From the terms of this act it appears that "most of the Plantations of the said Cusaboes" were already situated upon that island which is described as "near the Island of St. Helena,'1 but that it had fallen into private hands. The act reads as follows:
"Whereas the Cusaboe Indians of Granville County, are the native and ancient inhabitants of the Sea Coasts of this Province, and kindly entertained the first English who arrived in the same, and are useful to the Government for Watching and Discovering Enemies, and finding Shipwreck'd People; And whereas the Island called Palawana near the Island of St. Helena, upon which most of the Plantations of the said Cusaboes now are, was formerly by Inadvertancy granted by the Right Honorable the Lords Proprietors of this Province, to Matthew Smalltvood, and by him sold and transferred to Jarnes Cockram, whose Property and Possession it is at present; Be it Enacted by the most noble Prince Henry Duke of Beauford, Palatine, and the Rest of the Right Honorable the true and absolute Lords and Proprietors of Carolina, together with the Advice and Consent of the Members of the General Assembly now met at Charles-Town for the South West Part of this Province, That from and after the Ratification of this Act, the Island of Palawana, lying nigh the Island of -St. Helena, in Granville County, containing between Four and Five Hundred Acres of Land, be it more or less, now in the Possession of James Cockram as aforesaid, shall be and is hereby declared to be invested in the aforesaid Cusaboe Indians, and in their Heirs forever.
(Swanton)