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A French officer took a census of the Choctaw towns
Source: Early History of the Creek Indians and Their Neighbors #121
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The only early town-by-town censuses of the Choctaw Nation which have come to my attention are contained in two manuscripts, the one in the French archives, a copy being in the Library of Congress, the other in a manuscript preserved in the Edward E. Ayer collection at the Newberry Library, Chicago,1 the same from which the Chickasaw census on page 450 was taken. The first is dated 1730 and is by Regis du Roullet, a French officer sent among the Choctaw in order to enlist their aid against the Natchez Indians; the author of the second is unknown and its date uncertain, that provisionally set for it, 1750, being more likely too late than too early. The following table embodies the material contained in these two lists, the subdivisions being given in accordance with the census of 1750, and the orthography of the town names in accordance with the same census except in the case of those towns which do not appear in it: Number of Men in the Choctaw Towns Those of the east: 1730 1750 Chicachae 160 150 Osquse alagna 3200 400 Tala 60 60 Nachoubaoiienya 50 40 Nacchoubanfouny 20 Bouctouloutchy 30 30 Youanny 50 30 Those of the south: Conchats 100 * 150 Yanabe 60 100 Oqueloilsa 100 80 Colt chitou 80 80 ' Mem. Am. Anth. Assn., v, No. 2, pp. 71-72. • The number of men in a few of these towns Is given in a communication by the same writer the year before. These are Coit Chitou 400, BouctoulSuchy (?) 20, YanaM 30, Oqueloilsa 60, Coucha 200, and 30 youths, Nachoubaouenya 30, Osquea alagna 500, Tala 30, Youanny 60, Chicachae 150. » Including Cheniacha. < Adair, however, reports " Coosah," the Conchats of the above list, to have been the largest town in his time.—Hist. Am. Inds.' p. 283. swanton] EARLY HISTORY OF THE CREEK INDIANS 455 Thosc of the west: 1730 1750 Bouctoucoulou 60 Pinte 70 50 Abissa 30 40 Boucfalaya 15 70 Stechipouta [I techipouta] 60 40 Filitamon 60 Conchabouloucta 100 Louscouchetacanle [Pouscouchetacanle] 80 50 Ectchanque 20 30 Ougoulabalbaa 100 OqueoUllou 20 60 Mongoulacha 100 150 Otouc falaya 100 Boucfouca 130 80 FaDiakne 20 Castacha 120 80 Yachou 60 40 Abeca 50 200 Cafetalaya 130 70 Outapacha 40 Touale 40 Achouqouma ' 20 30 Bisacha 15 80 Scanapa 180 30 Ebitoupougoula 100 60 Bouctoucoillou 130 90 Alibamons-chouga-lougolt' 40 Abeca '. . . . 100 60 Oulitacha 50 40 Loucfeata 60 50 Choukelissa 30 Mongoulacha 20 60 Yachofl or Achouq loud 70 70 Iteopchaqun [It6okchaqflo] 100 100 Rouctacant6 10 Osapaissa 50 Ouatonaoiila 30 80 Boucchito '- 30 Epitoupougoulu 80 Ougoulatanap 150 (Swanton)
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