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Previous location of the Lower Creeks is confused

Source: The Debatable Land #557

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[Note 1 Both Swanton and Crane were unable to determine the location of the Lower Creeks before 1690. Both have left the question a matter of speculation. Swanton writes: "South Carolina documents place this tribe [the Kasihta] on Ocheese Creek in 1702, Ocheese Creek being an old name for the upper part of the Ocmulgee, and it seems probable from an examination of the Spanish documents that they were settled there as early as 1680-1685." Commenting on Matheos's report of May 19, 1686, Swanton infers that the four towns burned by Matheos were probably on the Ocmulgee. Of course his conclusion is incorrect (Swanton, J. R., Early History of the Creek Indians, 220221 (Washington, 1922). In another connection Swanton says that in 1681 the Coweta were living in the neighborhood of Butts County, Georgia. Ibid., 307; Crane, V. W. ("The Southern Frontier During Queen Anne's War," Am. Hist. Rev., XXIV, 381), implies that the Kawita and Kasihta (which he makes synonymous with Oconee and Ocheese) were on the Oconee in 1684. For the naming of the Lower Creeks see Crane, Mississippi Valley Historical Review, V, 339. For the identity of the Westo, see Crane, American Anthropologist, N. S., XX, 331.]