Chowan County, North Carolina
Chowan County ()
, from the North Carolina Collection's website at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Retrieved 2013-02-08. is one of the 100 County (United States), counties located in the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 13,708. Its county seat is Edenton, North Carolina, Edenton. The county was created between 1668 and 1671 as Shaftesbury Precinct and later renamed Chowan Precinct. It gained county status in 1739.

History

Chowan was formed in 1670 as a precinct, originally c ...
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Chowanoc
The Chowanoke, also spelled Chowanoc, are an Algonquian languages, Algonquian-language Indigenous people of the Americas, Native American tribe who historically inhabited the coastal area of the Upper South of the United States. At the time of the first English (people), English contacts in 1585 and 1586, they were the largest and most powerful Algonquian tribe in present-day North Carolina, occupying most or all of the coastal banks of the Chowan River in the northeastern part of the state. Their peoples had occupied their main town since 825 AD. Earlier indigenous cultures occupied the area from 4500 BC. After warfare, in 1677 English colonists set aside a reservation for the tribe near Bennett's Creek. The Chowanoke suffered high mortality due to infectious disease, including a smallpox epidemic in 1696. Descendants with Chowanoke ancestry survived but merged with other groups, and they lost the last of their communal land in 1821. Chowanoke descendants still live in the state, ...
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