Graffenried and the settlers evict a group…

Graffenried and the settlers evict a group of Tuscarora from nearby lands without payment in 1711, and Graffenried assumes the title "Landgrave of Carolina."

Retaliatory raids by the Tuscarora, under a leader named Hancock, lead to deaths and damage to the settlement.

Chief Hancock by now believes he has to attack the settlers to fight back.

Chief Tom Blunt does not join him in the war.

Graffenried, along with John Lawson, takes a trip up the Neuse River during the summer of 1711,

Graffenried wants to crossbreed European grapes with wild, native grapes and start a vineyard.

The Tuscarora take captive Graffenried and John Lawson (and an enslaved baggage-carrier).

While in captivity, John Lawson and Graffenried are given three separate trials, each in a different Tuscaroran village.

One finds the men not guilty; the other two pronounce them guilty of wrongful crimes against the Tuscarorans.

The Tuscaroras decide to kill them, but the elders talk and decide Graffenried will be released.

He wears such fine clothes, they mistake him for the governor of North Carolina.

They think if they let the "governor" go, the colony will let the incident pass.

They inform him they are planning an attack on all the settlements in North Carolina (this comes to be known as the Tuscarora War).

The next day, Lawson is killed and Graffenried is allowed to return to his settlement, which he finds abandoned and in flames.