Native American Tribe series.
Machapunga
The Machapunga were a small Native American tribe of the Algonquian language family, one of a number in the territory of North Carolina. They were a group who had migrated south from the Algonquian peoples of the Powhatan Confederacy in present-day Virginia. They are now extinct as a separate tribe. They spoke an Algonquian language and historically occupied a coastal area of northeastern North Carolina.
One of a number of small, Algonquian-speaking tribes in coastal North Carolina, the Machapunga (meaning "bad dust" or "much dirt," which sounds like an exonym given by a competing tribe, rather than an autonym they would identify with) lived in the Pungo River area. Many lived in a village called Mattamuskeet on the shore of Lake Mattamuskeet in present-day Hyde County. In 1701 English colonists described the tribe as containing roughly 100 members. In 1711 they participated in the Tuscarora War against the colonists. By 1715, the remaining members of the Coree, who lived to the south, had been merged into the Machapunga and lived together with them in Mattamuskeet.
Descendants of the Machapunga tribe reside in the Inner Banks of eastern North Carolina. Some of the Machapunga descendants traditionally had the surname Mackey, sometimes spelled Mackee, Mackie or Macky. Other known surnames among the people were Barber, Clark, Collins, Morris, and King. Survivors intermarried with other ethnic peoples, and their children and grandchildren carry all their ancestry.
Mondo's NAT #301 - Machapunga
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Thanks so much for the hide mondou2, I really enjoyed finiding this cache!