The Croatan Indians of Sampson County, North Carolina : their origin and racial status : a plea for separate schools . loveand admiration. May their name ever linger in our hearts andminds. Our ancestors are after all not so different fromother people of those days. We are told that the old Scotwould sell his horse and pawn his coat for a jug of liquor, andthe now cultured and refined English also participated in thesemost destructive habits. This brings us down to our own times recollection. Weremember the late Raford Brewington well. If we had theskill we could paint the true likeness of him

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The Croatan Indians of Sampson County, North Carolina : their origin and racial status : a plea for separate schools . loveand admiration. May their name ever linger in our hearts andminds. Our ancestors are after all not so different fromother people of those days. We are told that the old Scotwould sell his horse and pawn his coat for a jug of liquor, andthe now cultured and refined English also participated in thesemost destructive habits. This brings us down to our own times recollection. Weremember the late Raford Brewington well. If we had theskill we could paint the true likeness of him as a loved andhonored ancestor. He died at the ripe age of eighty-fouryears, when the writer was only a boy. Raford Brewingtonaccumulated quite a lot of real estate and personal propertywhile in the vigor and strength of his early manhood. Heowned nearly a thousand acres of land between the two Co-haries. He had gained all this wealth prior to the Civil War, and when the Union Army passed through, in 1865, they tookfrom him two or three thousand dollars worth of provisions 56 The Croatan Indians oe Sampson County. Boys—Top Row, Eeft to Right: M. L. Brewington, son of H. A. Brewington;Henry Brewington, son of J. Arthur Brewington; J. H. Brewington, son of H.A. Brewington; Robert Jones, grandson of H. A. Brewington; June Ammons. sonof Ella Ammons. Girls—Bottom Row, Left to Right: Ollie Brewington, daughter of M. L.Brewington; Bessie Jones, daughter of Jno. R. Jones; Essie Goodman, daughterof W. E- Goodman; Bessie Brewington. daughter of W. B. Brewington.All of Herrings Township, Sampson County and cattle. The claim for damages for this depredation hasbeen settled by the Federal Government. He was styled asone of the leading citizens of his community in his day, andthe home that he secured for himself and family speaks for A Plea for Separate Schools 57 him intelligence and industry. His land, though bought byhim eighty years ago, still remains as property of the family.It is