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De Luna's men reported about 170 family establishments
Source: Early History of the Creek Indians and Their Neighbors #121
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Those of the De Luna expedition who visited Coosa in 1559 reported that the principal town of the province had 30 houses, a figure which may be accepted as approximately correct. They add that there were seven other villages in its neighborhood, "five of them smaller and two larger," and allowing 20 houses on the average to each of these we should have about 170 houses, by which I suppose we are to understand 170 different family establishments.13 This would furnish the amount of leeway that Garcilasso's figuring always requires, and it is not far out of the way as compared with Pardo's, if the latter's 150 "vecinos" means family groups. When Coosa reappears in history the town is small and decayed, but, as explained elsewhere, there is every reason to believe that the Coosa tribe continued to be represented by a number of the leading towns of the Creek Confederacy. (Swanton)
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