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- ↑ "Great Coharie Creek at SR 1214 near Butler Crossroads (21NCMONITORING-B8604000) site data in the Water Quality Portal". National Water Quality Monitoring Council. Retrieved 27 August 2022.
- ↑ "LITTLE COHARIE CREEK NEAR ROSEBORO, NC (USGS-02106000) site data in the Water Quality Portal". National Water Quality Monitoring Council. Retrieved 27 August 2022.
- ↑ "Geologic Unit: Coharie". National Geologic Map Database. Retrieved 27 August 2022.
- ↑ "Chapter 71A. Indians". NC General Assembly. Retrieved 16 October 2023.
- ↑ Butler, George Edwin (1916). The Croatan Indians of Sampson County, North Carolina: Their Origin and Racial Status. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library. ISBN 978-1-4696-4181-2.
- ↑ Fullam, Brandon (2020). Manteo and the Algonquians of the Roanoke Voyages. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co. p. 72. ISBN 9781476638249.