Abstract:
Mattamuskeet refers to a group of Native Americans who, after losing in the Tuscarora War (1711-1715), were given land around the Mattamuskeet Lake in Hyde County. The group sold land to white developers and the population of the Mattamuskeet dwindles. The Mackeys Family, of Fairfield, was the only family in the late 1970s able to trace its lineage back to the first Mattamuskeet lands.