sentences:  Oral traditions and legends about the migration of the Croatan through the mainland are prevalent in eastern North Carolina.For example, the "Legend of the Coharie" in Sampson County was transcribed by Edward M. Bullard in 1950.More famously, in the 1880s, state legislator Hamilton McMillan proposed that the Native American community in Robeson County (then considered free people of color) retained surnames and linguistic characteristics from the 1587 colonists.