Source: Early History of the Creek Indians and Their Neighbors (ID121)
Author: Swanton, John (ID85)
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1701-06-01 - 1701-06-30
Five Canadian travelers to SC found a Chiska/Yuchi town on the Tennessee river
Five Canadians who reached South Carolina via the Tennessee River in the summer of 1701 found this [Chiska/Yuchi] town above a town of the Chickasaw and below that of the Tali. They estimated the number of their men at "about 200."4 It is probable that soon after this time the Yuchi moved higher up the Tennessee, for the next we hear of them they were living close to the Cherokee country. Through the South Carolina archives we learn that they had a town there named Chestowee or Chestowa. This is a Cherokee word which Moouey spells Tsistu'yl, and interprets" Rabbit place." 5
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