While we know our northern friends may not feel it, in the South, Spring is
here. So we thought we'd share a few of our gardening sites appropriate
for this time of the year. Along with gardening, there's grilling, and getting
ready to diet so that you can fit back into that bathing suit this summer!
Weapemeoc.
An Algonquian (?) tribe met by Raleigh's colonists in 1584-89, occupying
the territory north of Albemarle Island, N. C., including probably most of
what is now Currituck, Camden, Pasquotank, and Perquimans counties. Their
chief town, of the same name, seems to have been in Pasquotank county.
Other towns apparently in the same jurisdiction were Pasquenock
(Pasquotank?), Chepanoc, and Mascoming. They were said then to have 700 or
800 (warriors), under their
chief Okisco. A century later the same territory was occupied by the
Yeopim or Jaupim (Weapon-oc?), Pasquotank, Perquiman, and Poteskeet. In
1662 the Yeopim chief sold lands. In 1701, according to Lawson, the other
bands still counted 40 warriors, but of the Yeopim only one man survived.
