See Chocowinity Creek.

SW Beaufort County.

traditional site of the first courthouse of Cumberland County, located at the mouth of Little River near the present site of Linden in the N part of the county. The courthouse was there from 1755 until it was moved to Campbellton in 1765. The name may be derived from the old English word "chuff," meaning a rustic or rude, coarse fellow, and may have been applied by people of English descent to the recently arrived Scots.

rises in W Macon County and flows NE into Nantahala Lake.

in E Jackson County on the head of Mull Creek.

rises in N Swain County and flows W into Forney Creek.

rises in SE Bertie County and flows E into Roquist Creek.

See Currituck Inlet.

an Indian town, shown on the Moseley map, 1733, as lying in the S central part of present Gates County between Bennetts Creek and Trotman Creek.

on Chowan River S of the mouth of Meherrin River on the E border of Hertford County. First named Mount Gallant for John Gallant, who operated a ferry there about 1720. Known as Mount Zion in the latter half of the eighteenth century.