Coosaw

The Coosaw, also known as the Kussoe, were among the Indigenous peoples of the Carolina coast. Their name survives in the Coosaw and Coosawhatchie waterways, in the low country between the Edisto and Combahee. In 1675 leaders recorded as the Great and Lesser Casor sold land to the English colonists. Some Coosaw later joined the Catawba; an account from 1743 noted that they retained a language of their own among their new neighbours.