Date published: 1956-01-01
Source: The Southern Frontier (ID86)
Author: Crane, Verner (ID35)
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1716-01-01 - 1716-12-31

Indians relocated after the Yamasee Waredit

'In 1716 the Ocheese Creek Indians with the Cowetas, Savanas, Hogologees [Yuchi] and Oconees and Apalachees and several remnants of other small tribes moved to this river. They are now at peace with us but suffer the French as well as us to trade with them. They are in all about 1000 men, the most warlike Indians in these parts.' Thus a legend on a contemporary English map1 described the return of the Creeks with part of their confederates to their old land of Apalachicola, on the Chattahoochee, at the meeting of the trails from Charles Town, Apalache, and Mobile. No other region in the South henceforth, was so much the theatre of international intrigue. Meanwhile, other allies, more completely committed to Spain, had fled farther southward. They established a new border for Florida from the St. John's River to Apalache Bay, the forks of the Apalachicola, and Santa Maria de Galve. Most of the Yamasee took shelter near the presidio of St. Augustine. In 1727 they [Yamasee] were settled in three neighboring towns [near the SA presidio]: Tolemato, where the Huspaw and Altamaha people lived together, Nombre de Dios, and Pocotaligo. 2 [Note 2 JC, August 4, 9, 1727 (testimony of the Squirrel King of the Chickasaws regarding a recent raid). Cf. Swanton, Early History]

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