In 1712, a Meherrin Indian named Tut-sech (Basket) Basqueat visited Tuscarora Chief, Thomas Blount to get ammunition. (North Carolina Colonial Records: December 23, 1712).
We have it on the authority of the neutral Tuscarora leader: Tom Blunt just now informs me of an Meherrin Indian lately at his town, named Tut-sech (Basket) Basqueat – so that it is not to be doubted but that they supply them with what ammunition they use and carry what news they know of… (Saunders, Vol. I, December 23, 1712, letter by Gov. Pollock)
This betrayal of the Meherrin by Blount no doubt set the stage for a retaliatory attack the Meherrin later made on Blount’s town, kidnapping two children (Document B-48). (The Secret History of the Meherrin page 93)
