Coree

The Coree (also known as Connamox, cores, Core Nines, Connamocksocks, Coranine Indians or Neuse River Indians ) were a North American Tribal Culture, originally the peninsulas of the Neuse River in the County Carteret and Craven in present-day North Carolina, on the southeastern coast of the United States populated. The very small strain may belong to the Algonquian, he was not described until 1701 by the European settlers. According to records John Lawson, the language of the Coree did not assign and bore no resemblance to the languages ​​of the Tuscarora, Algonquian or Woccon. The name Coree could be derived from the Algonquian name Cwareuuoc. John Lawson, according to which the strain was clearly decimated by a war with another tribe in 1696, was one of 125 members and ordered them two settlements: Coranine and Raruta. He referred to the tribe once as Coranine, other times he uses the term Connamox.

1711 Coree participated as allies of the Tuscarora in the Tuscarora War, some survivors of the dispute settled in 1715 in the only remaining village of Machapunga, Mattamuskeet at Mattamuskeet Lake, to the tribe became extinct there, probably in what is now Hyde County ( North Carolina). Other Coree preferred to the tribal area, now the Carteret County to stay. There they lived largely on isolated and rather hidden places and went to the white population.

The chief of the descendants of the tribe, Chief Jerry " Turtle " Faircloth trying to gain state recognition of the tribe, which is now called Faircloth Indians.