 uring
the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Hyde’s rich soils,
plentiful wildlife, and abundant fisheries appealed to settlers
from Virginia, Maryland, and New England. Inevitably, intense
conflicts here and elsewhere in eastern North Carolina arose
between the Indians and settlers and resulted in the Tuscaora War
of 1711. Following the war, surviving Algonkians were deeded the
Mattamuskeet Reservation along the southeastern shore of the
lake. By 1761, the Mattamuskeet Indians had sold their interest in
the reservation and moved away or married non-Indians.
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