The colonists noted Necoes as about 20 miles from the mouth of the Cape Fear River, in present-day Brunswick County.
One Indian individual sold to Hilton Cape Fear River and adjacent lands.
As a result, most of the Tuscarora left the area and migrated north, reaching present-day New York and Ontario to join the related Haudenosaunee Confederacy of Iroquois tribes.
[6] The Cape Fear Indians and the Winyah people migrated from their coastal villages up the Pee Dee River adjacent to a trading post the British founded in 1716.
There had previously been complaints that the Cape Fear were being abused and driven from nearby hunting lands by neighboring Europeans.