The Florida Tribe of Cheraw Indians Y&T

The Florida Tribe of Cheraw Indians are the modern descendants of the Catawba, Cheraw, and Lumbee of the Carolinas who migrated to Florida’s panhandle in the 1820’s. The ancestors of the tribe are identified as “Free People of Color” before the Civil War and as one of several “American Racial Isolate” groups afterwards. These are common surnames historically associated with the tribal community: Ammons Ayers Barnwell Bass Bennett Bird Blanchard Boggs Brown Bullard Bunch Bryant Brooks Chason Chavis Conyers Copeland Davis Doyle Goins Hall Harris Hicks Hill Holly Ireland Jacobs Johnson Jones Kever Long Lovett Mainer Martin Mayo Moses Oxendine Perkins Porter Potter Quinn Scott Simmons Smith Stafford Stephens Sweat Thomas Whitfield and Williams.