(Worth SGC) There seems little doubt that the Chichimeco of the Spanish sources were in fact one and the same as the Rechahecrians, a group of Indians who settled at the falls of the James River in Virginia in 1656 (Swanton, 1922: 294-296; Crane, 1956: 5-6,16-17; Smith, 1987: 131-133). Following early hostilities with these English colonists and their Indian allies, the immigrants seem to have established peace with the Virginians. If, as others have argued, these Rechahecrians were indeed the displaced Erie of the Great Lakes region, forced to the south in the mid-1650s during the Iroquois wars, then they almost certainly had been armed with firearms prior to their arrival on the Virginia frontier (Smith, 1987: 132). Nevertheless, there is sound evidence that a trade in firearms and munitions soon developed between the Rechahecrians and the English colonists of Virginia during the late 1650s, and that these Chichimeco arrived with their weapons in the interior of modern Georgia within only three years (Swanton, 1922: 294-295).