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Sawokli probably lived on teh Chattahoochee River ever since the Yamasee War

Source: Early History of the Creek Indians and Their Neighbors #121

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The De Crenay map of 1733 shows a town called "Chaouakale" on the west bank of the Chattahoochee, and another, "Chaogouloux," eastward of the Flint (pl. 5). It seems probable that part of the tribe at least settled first near Ocmulgee River, because on the Moll map of 1720 they are placed on the west bank of a southern affluent of that stream. The name appears in a few later maps—for instance, the Homann map of 1759—but none of these, except the De Crenay map above mentioned, shows a Sawokli' town on the Chattahoochee until 1795, when it appears between the Apalachicola town and the mouth of the Flint. This is repeated on some subsequent maps.

However, there is every reason to believe that they had been on Chattahoochee River ever since the Yamasee war. They appear in the Spanish enumeration of 1738 and the French estimates of 1750 and 1760. 3 In 1761 the Sawokli trading house was owned by Crook & Co.4 Sawokli occurs also in the lists of Creek towns given by Bartram,5 Swan,5 and Hawkins.7 Some of these contain a big and a little Sawokli, and Hawkins gives the following description of the two as they existed in his time [1798]:

"Sau-woo-ge-lo is six miles below O-co-nee, on the right bank of the river [the Chattahoochee], a new settlement in the open pine forest. Below this, for four and a half miles, the land is flat on the river, and much of it in the bend is good for corn. Here We-lau-ne, (yellow water) a fine flowing creek, joins the river; and still lower, Co-waggee, (partridge),[Note: "Partridge" is probably a mistranslation, the name being a contraction of Okawaigi (see below).] a creek sixty yards wide at its mouth. Its source is in the ridge dividing its waters from Ko-e-ne-cuh, Chootan hatche and Telague hache; [The words "Choc-tan hatche and Telague hache" are wanting in the MS. in the Library] they have some settlements in this neighborhood, on good land. Sau-woog-e-loo-che is two miles above Sau-woo-ge-lo, on the left bank of the river, in oaky woods, which extend back one mile to the pine forest; they have about twenty families, and plant in the bends of the river; they have a few cattle."
(Swanton)