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The Cape Fear Indians were a small tribe of Carolina Algonquian Native Americans who lived on the Cape Fear River in North Carolina (now Carolina Beach State Park).Their name for the area was Chicora. Of their villages only one Necoes is known by name. The colonists noted Necoes as located about 20 miles from the mouth of the Cape Fear River in present-day Brunswick County.It was estimated that the tribe’s population in 1600 was 1000.