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I AM OF LASSITER DESCENT IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA. WE CAN TRACE OUR INDIAN HERITAGE TO SOUTHAMPTON COUNTY, VIRGINIA. MY GREAT GREAT GREAT GREAT GRANDFATHER WAS A NOTTOWAY CHEROENHAKA INDIAN. WE ARE CURRENTLY IN THE PROCESS OF REORGANIZING THE TRIBE. EARLY HISTORY RECORDS SHOW THAT THE NOTTOWAY WERE TERMINATED. HOWEVER THERE ARE OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS WHICH SHOW THAT IN FACT THE NOTTOWAY WERE NOT TERMINATED, THEY SIMPLY GAVE UP THEIR RESERVATION AND MOVED SOUTH TO NORTH CAROLINA FOR A BETTER LIFE. HERE THEY INTERMARRIED WITH WHITES AND BLACKS IN A HOPE TO DROP THIER INDIAN IDENTITY, DUE TO THE FACT THEY WERE SO MISTREATED. THERE ARE SEVERAL SPELLINGS FOR THE NAME LASTER,LASSITER, LASITOR, LASITER AND SO ON. THE LASTER TRIBE SETTLED IN HERTFORD COUNTY NORTH CAROINA IN THE LATE 1700S. FROM THERE THEY MIGRATED TO MORE SOUTHERN POINTS AND OUT IN THE WEST. I HAVE SEVERAL DISTANT COUSINS (VERY DISTANT) OUT IN CALIFORNIA.
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THANKS
TONYA FREEMAN

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