THE APALACHICOLA There has been considerable confusion regarding this tribe, because the name was applied by the Spaniards from a very early period to the Lower Creeks generally... It is used in its general sense in... in letters of 1686 and 1688. On the other hand, in the letter of 1686 the name "Apalachicoli" is distinctly applied also to a particular town,4 and inasmuch as it is clearly the name of a tribe and town in later times it is probable that its original application was to such a tribe among or near the Lower Creeks. From this the Spaniards evidently extended it over the whole of the latter. That the town was considered important is shown by the Creek name which it bears, Talwa lako, "Big Town," and from Bartram's statement that it was the leading White or Peace town.5 In one Spanish document we read that Oconee was "under Apalachicolo," (Swanton)