We learn from the same source that in 1714 this town [see Yuchi 1712-5-14] was "cut off" by the Cherokee in retaliation for the murder of a Cherokee Indian.1 The documents add that the murder had been committed at the instigation of some English traders. The tradition of the event remained in the country for a long time, as is evident by the following statements of Ramsey. In recounting the various tribes which formerly inhabited Tennessee he says: "A small tribe of Uchees once occupied the country near the mouth of Hiwassee. Their warriors were exterminated in a desperate battle with the Cherokees.2 In another place he adds that this conflict occurred at '"the Uchee Old Fields, in what is now Rhea County." The site is now in Meigs County.2 He also says that the survivors were compelled to retreat to Florida, where they became incorporated with the Seminole, but he has evidently brought together two widely separated fragments of Yuchi history. It is apparent that the extermination was not as complete as he represents, nor did the whole tribe leave the country. Mr. Mooney quotes testimony from a Cherokee mixed blood named Ganse" tl, or Rattling-gourd, who was born on Hiwassee River in 1820 and went west with his people in 1838, to the effect that a number of Yuchi lived, before the removal, scattered among the Cherokee near the present Cleveland, Tenn., and on Chickamauga, Cohutta, and Pinelog Creeks in the adjacent section of Georgia. They had no separate settlements, but spoke their own language, which he described as 'hard and grunting.' Some of them spoke also Cherokee and Creek." * As the existence of the northern band of Yuchi was not suspected when Mr. Mooney penned the above he naturally assumed that they had drifted north from the Creek country before a boundary had been fixed between the tribes. It is now apparent that they were descendants of the Yuchi whose history we have been tracing. On Mitchell's map (pl. 6) and several others we find "Chestoi O. T." (i. e., Chestowee old town) laid down upon the Hiwassee a short distance above its mouth. After the removal some of these Yuchi probably reunited with the main part of their tribe in the Creek Nation; a few are said to be still living in Tennessee,5 and there is a modern town named "Euchee" on Tennessee River, near the northern end of Meigs County. (Swanton)