Limited documentation exists linking members of the tribe to the historical Occaneechi and Saponi tribes. After warfare in the Southeast in the 18th century, most of the remaining Saponi tribe members went north. In 1740, Saponi migrated to Shamokin in Pennsylvania for protection with the Haudenosaunee.Swanton, The Indian Tribes of North America, 72.Vest, An Odyssey among the Iroquois, 128. In 1711 the majority of Saponi migrated with the Cayuga to near Ithaca, New York, while some remained in Pennsylvania until 1778.Swanton, The Indian Tribes of North America, 72–73. After the American Revolution, they relocated with the Iroquois in Canada, as they had been allies of the British.
