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There were 132 men in Coweta

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

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The estimate of Coweta men in 1738 was 132,3 in 1750, 80 + ,4in 1760, 150,5 and in 1761, 130 hunters are enumerated.8 Taitt (1772) gives 220 gunmen in "Coweta, Little Coweta, and Bigskin Creek," 7 and Marbury (1792) puts the number of men in Coweta and its villages at 280 (p. 434). Hawkins places the number of gunmen in Coweta Tallahassee and its out villages in 1799 at 66 by actual count against a claimed total by the people themselves of 100, but he furnishes no figure for Coweta itself.8 The census of 1832 enumerated five Coweta settlements with a total population of 896 Indians and 67 slaves.9 To this must be added the Indians of Broken Arrow [Note: The population of Broken Arrow is referred to by only one other writer. This is David Taitt in 1772, who gives 60 gunmen.], which, if we could trust this census, would increase the Coweta Indians by 1,082 Indians and 59 slaves.9 It is evident, however, that among the five Broken Arrow towns here enumerated two or three are really Okfuskee villages and probably only the two first mentioned towns represent this division. If this is so, the Broken Arrow population would number only 438 Indians and 31 slaves, which would raise the total Coweta population to 1 ,334 Indians and 99 slaves. They have since fallen off very rapidly in numbers.
(Swanton)