Sewee

Many anthropologists believe the Sewee were part of the Cusabo group.

Break No Bones Reichs, Kathy 2006

By ten I'd composed a brief statement concerning the Sewee burial site on Dewees, including my opinion as to its value as a cultural resource.

Break No Bones Reichs, Kathy 2006

Dickie Dupree had a lot more to worry about than the ancient Sewee.

Break No Bones Reichs, Kathy 2006

They landed at Sewee bay, and from thence travelled over land to Charlestown, giving out that they had been shipwrecked, and fortunately escaped to shore in their boat.

An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 1 Alexander Hewatt

At Stono there is also a large creek, which admits vessels of the same draught of water; but Sewee and Santee rivers, and many others of less note, are for smaller craft which draw seven, eight, or nine feet.

An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 2 Alexander Hewatt

Two variations, Sewee and Seewee, are used in this book, and have been left as in the original.

Carolina Chansons Legends of the Low Country Hervey Allen 1919

Both the analogy and euphony of the Indian tongue indicate, beyond all doubt, that Pedee had the same original as Santee, Congaree, Wateree, Uchee, and Sewee, all of unquestionable Indian birth, and the names of neighboring and cognate tribes.

Indians of North Carolina: Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, Transmitting, in Response to a Senate Resolution of June 30, 1914, a Report on the Condition and Tribal Rights of the Indians of Robeson and Adjoining Counties of North Carolina O. M. McPherson 1915

More flexible in their habits than the English, they conciliated the latter by deference; and, soothing the unruly passions of the Indians -- the Santee and Sewee tribes, who were still in considerable numbers in their immediate neighborhood -- they won them to alliance by kindness and forbearance.

The Life of Francis Marion Simms, William Gilmore, 1806-1870 1844

Standing amid old rubble, the Vermont trio performed an all-too-brief version of "Sewee Sewee."

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From their first settlement, they appear to have conciliated their neighbours, the Sewee and Santee Indians; and to have submitted to their rigorous fate with that resignation and cheerfulness which is characteristic of their nation.

A Sketch of the life of Brig. Gen. Francis Marion and a history of his brigade William Dobein James 1801