Date published: 1956-01-01
Source: The Southern Frontier (ID86)
Author: Crane, Verner (ID35)
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1707-01-01 - 1707-12-31

SC turned mainland Granville County into a Yamasee Indian reservationedit

The intrusion of the cattle-raisers which reached its peak in 1707, led that year to the passage of an important act 'to Limit the Bounds of the Yamasee Settlement, to prevent Persons from Disturbing them with their Stocks, and to Remove such as are settled' within the bounds described. 6 The reservation embraced the island of Coosawhatchie, and the mainland between the Combahee, rort Royal, and Savannah Rivers and an inland boundary drawn vaguely from the head of the Combahee River to the head of the Savannah. All of Granville county with the exception of the sea-islands was thus set apart for the ten towns of the Yamasee. The Broad River was apparently the line between the two divisions of the tribe. The Upper Towns were Pocotaligo, Huspaw, Yoa, Sadkeche and Tomatly; the Lower Towns comprised Altamaha, Pocasabo, Chasee, Oketee, and probably Tulafina. 7 [Note 7: Compare with the list in Swanton, Early History, p. 97, where Sadkeche, Tomatly, Oketee, and Tulafina ,are omitted. Swanton also includes Ilcombe, Dawfuskee (with some question), and possibly Peterba, but on questionable evidence. JIC, July 9, 1712, named Pocotaligo and Altamaha as head-towns of the two divisions. Pocataligo River, a small tributary of the Broad, bounds present Beaufort and Jasper counties. Huspah Neck is between the Combahee and the Whale Branch. The Yoa occupied adjoining lands. Sadkeche (see JCHA, February 5, 1703) survives in Salkehatchie, the name of a hamlet at the Atlantic Coast Line crossing of the Combahee. Farther north, probably in Colleton County, was fought in 1715 the Sadkeche or 'Saltketchers' fight. Probably this town was the Spanish Salchiches, according to Swanton 'an unidentified tribe living inland' from Guale, apparently Muskhogeans with 'numerous relatives in ... Guale' (pp. 60, 83). Tomatly town of the Yamasee was mentioned in JCHA, February 5, 1703, and in JIC, July 28, 1711; it probably gave the name to Landgrave Bellinger's great barony (SCHGM, XV. 9), and hence to the village in Beaufort county. The name appears also among Creeks and Cherokees; in this connection it is of interest that Cherokee tradition in 1727 held that the Yamasee (possibly this town?) were formerly Cherokee, driven out by the Tomahitans (C.O. 5 :387, p. 132). Pocasabo is another surviving placename. The 'Okata' cassique was named in JCHA, January 24, 1702; Sir John Colleton's barony, laid out in 1718 north of Hilton's Head Island, was called 'Oketee' (SCHGM, XIII. 119-25), and the name is a common one in Jasper county. Ocute and Altamaha were neighboring towns in central Georgia in the 16th and 17th centuries (Swanton, Early History, p. 95). Swanton, to be sure, identifies Ocute and Hitchiti (p. 174), but 'Aequite' in the De Crenay map was more likely Achitia. There is no contemporary Carolinian record of Tulafina, but an estuary of the Coosawhatchie, in Jasper county, is named Tulifinny, which is strikingly like the name of the interior town in Guale associated with Salchiches (Swanton, Early History, pp. 60, 82, 83).]

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Have Juan Ignacio blend his religions as he is dying. He follows the Indian religion by asking that


Date Created: 2024-04-22 19:36:28
Source: Amy Notes (ID 702)
Author: Howard, Amy (ID 633)
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Have Juan Ignacio blend his religions as he is dying. He follows the Indian religion by asking that his bones be buried with the Uchises so that, by the Christian religion, he will meet his parents for the first time in heaven.