Pamticough

The Pamlico, also called Pampticough, lived along the river that bears their name in eastern Carolina. They spoke an Algonquian language and travelled the waters in dugout canoes, fishing and gathering shellfish as well as growing maize. Smallpox devastated the Pamlico and neighbouring communities in 1696. When John Lawson recorded their language in 1701, their numbers had already fallen; by 1710 they lived in a single small village.