Source: Early History of the Creek Indians and Their Neighbors (ID121)
Author: Swanton, John (ID85)
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1688-01-01 - 1688-12-31
Spaniards used the name Apalachicola to refer to Lower Creeks
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, Coweta and Kasihta in one account being mentioned as Apalachicola towns [Note: It appears in two forms, Apalachicoli and Apachicolo, the first of which is evidently in the Hftchiti dialect, the second in Muskogee. Apalachicola is a compromise term.]. It is used in its general sense in the very earliest place in the Spanish records in which the name occurs, a letter dated August 22, 1639, and in the same way in letters of 1686 and 1688.3
(Swanton)
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