Peedee

The Peedee lived along the river that bears their name, among the forests and wetlands of the Carolina interior. A colonial map of 1715 placed their village on the river's middle course, below the town of the Cheraw. The Pee Dee flows southeast toward the Atlantic, linking a broad inland watershed with the coastal plain.

Peedee warriors joined John Barnwell's expedition against the Tuscarora in 1711. The Yamasee War and the expansion of colonial settlement brought further upheaval to the region. In 1737 the Peedee petitioned South Carolina for land, and the following year a group settled with Natchez people on a tract by the Edisto River. Later conflict with the Catawba in the 1740s drove some Peedee and Natchez into colonial settlements.